Harper’s Weekly – A Journal of Civilization with frontispiece: The Star-Spangled Banner”

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Author: various

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York.

Year: 1898

Size: 39.7 x 27.4 cm

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Description

pp. 757-784, with 1 double-page centrefold of photograph, with many black & white photo illustrations including 15 Philippine views. Volume 42, no.2172, August 06, 1898 issue.
Philippine article by Hon. John Barrett, Late United States Minister-Resident to Siam = “Manila and the Philippines”, pp. 763-770.
Cuba double-page fold-out view = “The Storming of San Juan – The Head of the Charge – Santiago de Cuba, July 1.”
15 Philippine views:
1) The Luneta, Manila
2) Fort and Earth-Works, Cavite, Silenced and Captured by Admiral Dewey.
3) Chief and Escort of Aetas, or Negritos, The Original Natives of the Philippines, Living in Mountains.
4) Headquarters of Officers of Spanish Artillery.
5) An Indian Residence, Bohol.
6) Rebel Leaders, and Spanish Officers in Charge of their Deportation from the Islands.
7) Sunday Service on the Spanish Cruiser “Reina Cristina,” Destroyed in the Engagement with Admiral Dewey’s Squadron.
8) The Escolta, The Principal Thoroughfare of Manila.
9) Official Residence of the Governor-General of the Philippines, Fronting the River Pasig.
10) Spanish Gunboat Destroyed by United States Fleet-Cavite Harbor.
11) Spanish Troops Hearing Mass.
12) River Pasig, from the Citadel, Manila.
13) Spanish Bridge, Manila.
14) A Canal in Manila.
15) General Merritt. Commander-in-Chief of the Expedition to the Philippines, in his Cabin on the Transport “Newport”.

Condition

with small tear and small paper loss on frontispiece margin, not affecting plate, otherwise excellent condition for such a fragile magazine.

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