Harper’s Weekly – June 4, 1887 – Trade Dollars at the Treasury, Western Paymaster Escort Centerfold, Vassar Brothers Hospital & More

✨ Description

HARPER’S WEEKLY, New York, June 4, 1887
A complete 16-page issue featuring powerful engravings on American finance, Western military life, and late-19th-century institutional growth. This issue includes multiple frame-ready illustrations and is rich with Gilded Age history.


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🌟 Highlights in This Issue

🏦 Full Front Page: “Redeeming Trade Dollars in the N.Y. Sub-Treasury”

A dramatic and historically significant scene showing clerks and laborers handling massive bags of Trade Dollars as citizens redeem them.
This reflects the turbulent end of the U.S. Trade Dollar experiment and is highly desirable for collectors of numismatic or economic history.

Excellent wall-art candidate.


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🏥 Half-Page Engraving: “The Vassar Brothers Hospital at Poughkeepsie”

A finely detailed architectural rendering of one of the Hudson Valley’s major 19th-century institutions.
Great for New York state collectors and medical history enthusiasts.


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🤠 Double-Page Centerfold: “With a Paymaster’s Escort”

A superb and highly displayable Western frontier engraving showing mounted soldiers escorting a pay wagon through rugged terrain.
This is the standout illustration of the issue — bold, cinematic, and ideal for framing.

Perfect for collectors of:

Western Americana

U.S. military history

Frontier imagery

Gilded Age scenes of the West



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🎨 Additional Illustrated Content

Based on your photos, this issue also includes:

Japanese art and antiquities — multiple sculpture engravings

Architectural views (university buildings, institutional structures)

Portrait engravings

Studio & workshop scenes

Charming Victorian domestic illustrations

A full-page Pears’ Soap advertisement (“You Dirty Boy!”) — highly collectible

Dozens of period advertisements (Cocoa, Castoria, Spencerians, filters, tonics, etc.)



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🖼 Archival Framing Available

I offer museum-quality framing for any single-page or centerfold image in this issue.

Includes:

Acid-free mat

UV-protective acrylic

Archival backing

Gallery-quality finish


Best candidates for framing:

Trade Dollar Sub-Treasury front page

Western paymaster centerfold

Japanese sculpture plate

Pears Soap advertisement



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📏 Condition

VG for age

Light toning

Clean impressions

From a bound volume (expected binding holes)

No major losses visible

Crisp pages with strong contrast



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📦 Shipping

Ships flat, never rolled

Archival board + moisture barrier

Rigid outer packaging

Tracking included



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🎁 Ideal For Collectors Of:

Numismatic & financial history

Western Americana

U.S. military history

Victorian advertising

19th-century architecture

Harper’s Weekly originals