1860 Lincoln Wide-Awakes Parade Centerfold, Walker Obituary, Central Park Oct 13

🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · October 13, 1860
Complete Issue · New York

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A historically exceptional issue combining a double-page centerfold of the Grand Wide-Awakes procession for Lincoln and Hamlin in New York, William Walker's obituary portrait with three separate death reports, five scenes of Central Park, and the Prince of Wales at Washington's tomb. A primary document of the most dramatic presidential campaign of the antebellum era at its most climactic moment — three weeks before Lincoln's election.

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🎩 THE WIDE-AWAKES — LINCOLN AND HAMLIN
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🪔 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "GRAND PROCESSION OF THE WIDE-AWAKES AT NEW YORK" — WITH "LINCOLN AND HAMLIN" BANNER
A magnificent double-page centerfold of the Grand Procession of the Wide-Awakes in New York — the Republican Party's paramilitary marching organization that became one of the most remarkable phenomena of the 1860 presidential campaign. The Wide-Awakes — young Republican men in black oilskin capes and caps, carrying torches and marching in military formation — had been founded in Hartford, Connecticut earlier in 1860 and spread across the North with extraordinary speed, enrolling hundreds of thousands of members and organizing nighttime torch-light processions that were among the most visually spectacular political demonstrations in American history. Their New York procession — shown here with a banner explicitly supporting "Lincoln and Hamlin" — drew an estimated 10,000 marchers and was watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators. The Wide-Awakes' disciplined, torch-lit marching evoked a military preparedness that was pointed and deliberate at a moment when Southern states were threatening secession if Lincoln was elected. This centerfold — showing the Lincoln and Hamlin banner amid the torchlit parade — is a primary document of the 1860 campaign at its most visually dramatic. An essential piece of Lincoln history, presidential campaign history, and American political history. Price this as a premium issue.

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💀 WILLIAM WALKER — OBITUARY AND THREE DEATH REPORTS
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🎖️ ILLUSTRATION AND THREE REPORTS — "THE LATE GENERAL WALKER, THE FILIBUSTER" — WITH "THE END OF WALKER" AND "HONDURAS — THE CAPTURE OF WALKER"
A portrait illustration of William Walker accompanied by three separate text reports on his capture and execution — completing the most comprehensive single-publication documentary of Walker's death in the American press. This issue closes the four-issue Harper's Weekly Walker sequence (September 22, 29; October 6, 13) with Walker's actual portrait — the first illustration of him in these death-reporting issues — plus the most detailed accounts yet of his capture by the Royal Navy, his trial by court-martial, and his execution by firing squad at Truxillo, Honduras on September 12, 1860. Walker was 36 years old at his death. His portrait alongside three death reports makes this the capstone primary document of one of the most audacious and controversial careers in American frontier history. A significant piece of American filibuster history and Central American history.

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🌿 CENTRAL PARK — FIVE SCENES
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🌳 FULL PAGE — "THE CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK" — FIVE SCENES
Five scenes of Central Park — a comprehensive autumn documentary of the young park, capturing its drives, its paths, its bridges, and its landscape in the second year of its public life. A significant and very displayable piece of Central Park and New York City history.

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🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE
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🏛️ FRONT PAGE — "HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON"
A front-page illustration of the Prince of Wales visiting Mount Vernon and Washington's tomb — one of the most symbolically resonant moments of his American tour, the heir to the British throne paying homage to the man who had defeated his ancestor's empire. A significant piece of Anglo-American history.

⛪ QUARTER PAGE — "POPE PIUS THE NINTH" AND SMALL PRINT OF "GENERAL LAMORICIÈRE"
Pope Pius IX and General Christophe de Lamoricière — the French general commanding the Papal Army as it attempted to defend the Papal States against the advancing forces of Italian unification. A significant piece of Italian Risorgimento and Vatican history.

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Publication ········ Harper's Weekly
Date ··············· October 13, 1860
City ──────────── New York
Format ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages

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