Antique "Harper's Weekly" Pages +
Item Number: 229
Time Left: CLOSED
Online Close: Jul 22, 2012 8:00 PM HST
Bid History: 3 bids - Item Sold!
Description
These three, double-sided pages were chosen specifically for their connection to Hawaii. Fascinating reading and definitely worth framing if just for the pictures.
June 8, 1867-"Bishop's Church Honolulu & King Kamehameha V. Laying the Corner stone of the Bishop's Church at Honolulu"(hand colored)
May 3, 1873-"Idol Worship...Christian Worship in the Sandwich Islands"
The last page is from Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art, People's Series, No. 10, 30 December 1893 and pictures "The Royal Palace, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands"
Harper's Weekly (A Journal of Civilization) was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor. During its most influential period it was the forum of the political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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