Description: You are considering the Dec 23, 1882, original and complete issue of Harper's weekly Vol XXVI, No.1356, pages 809-828, with supplement. It is 1882, the beginning of the Gilded Age and of a recession/depression that would last for 3 years. Chester A. Arthur is President after the assassination of James Garfield by Charles Guiteau, who is hanged. John D. Rockefeller forms Standard Oil. Polygamy is outlawed and Chinese laborers are prohibited from immigrating for 10 years. Thomas Edison lights up a square mile in lower Manhattan and establishes the first commercial electric power plant. The Great Comet of 1882 appears and the Hatfields and McCoys start their feud in Kentucky. In the west, both Jesse James and Morgan Earp are assassinated. The first baseball World Series is played and the Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Connecticut. Both Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Darwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson pass, and Franklin D. Roosevelt is born.... In This Issue: Thomas Nast illustrations. "One Christmas Night," Ballad. Civil Service Reform Bill. Quincy Market, Boston. Bergen Tunnel. "Christmas Eve," "Christmas Shopping." Christmas 1782, Independence. "Spitting the Christmas Goose." "Christmas Morning in Delecarlia." Supplement: "What Came of a Christmas Pantomime." "Christmas Flirtation," by Thomas Nast. (a superb engraving, sharp and crisp) Wonderful old ads, poetry, literature, domestic and foreign news, and, of course, historic illustrations. Each issue will be inserted into a protective acetate sleeve and mailed flat. I will combine shipping. Two Harper's Weekly issues mail for the same price as one. I will refund any postage overpay for multiple issues.
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