"Harper's Weekly" Bound Volume of Issues for the Year 1870

Summary

Readers of Harper's Weekly could find news, fictional works, essays and illustrations depicting life in America and from around the world. This 1870 volume has an article on Hiram Revels, the Senator-elect from Mississippi. Revels, born a free person of color, became the first African American to serve in the United States Congress. He was elected to finish the term of one of Mississippi's Senators, left vacant since the Civil War.

Readers of Harper's Weekly could find news, fictional works, essays and illustrations depicting life in America and from around the world. This 1870 volume has an article on Hiram Revels, the Senator-elect from Mississippi. Revels, born a free person of color, became the first African American to serve in the United States Congress. He was elected to finish the term of one of Mississippi's Senators, left vacant since the Civil War.

Artifact

Magazine (Periodical)

Date Made

01 January 1870-31 December 1870

Subject Date

01 January 1870 - 31 December 1870

Collection Title

Periodical Collection 

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2020.0.1.32

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Printing (Process)
Bookbinding (Process)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 16 in

Width: 11 in

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