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Topic: Harper's Weekly

Related:
  Weekly    Harper  
  Entertainment Weekly    Publishers Weekly  
  Business Weekly    US Weekly  
  Harper Collins    Lawyers Weekly  
  Harpers Ferry    Weekly Calendar  
  People Weekly    Country Weekly  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Thomas Edison,  Mark Twain,  Alexander Bell
Currently has on their coffee table:Vogue magazine,  Cosmopolitan
Favorite artist(s):Claude Monet
Favorite author(s):Winslow Homer,  Harriet B. Stowe,  George Eliot
Favorite era(s):1800s
Favorite TV show(s):The Civil War
Favorite explorer(s):David Livingstone
Favorite book(s):"The McGuffey Readers" by William Holmes McGuffey
Favorite great leader(s):Otto von Bismarck
Favorite composer(s):Richard Wagner
Favorite royal(s):Catherina the Great,  Queen Victoria
Favorite sport(s):Bowling
Favorite philosopher(s):John Stuart Mill
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

This was the technique of illustrated newspapers such as Harpers Weekly, and numerous illustrated books.
Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model

Color engraved print from an 1874 issue of Harper's Weekly shows a monkey portraying a dentist.
Harper's Weekly Magazine advertised "Soldier's Pins" which could be mail ordered.
This is a hand colored, original old print from Harper's Weekly Size: 22x16 in.
Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer

May 07, 2002 Harper's weekly review email mentions MetaFilter as a source for their weekly news.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

On he right is the cover of Harper's Weekly from May 8, 1869 which features a story on Mumler's trial for fraud.
Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

Harper's Weekly, photocopy of Article/1 page.
Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Electronically reproduced and enhanced pages of Harper's Weekly magazine from the American Civil War period.
Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

By using references such as Harper's Weekly, the Civil War will unfold as it was reported then.
Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker

In the Harper's Weekly of 15 October 1859, a spread was devoted to two games being played on Hoboken's Elysian Fields.
Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender

Engraving: Harper's Weekly Children watch while the brewery truckman siphons out his brew for sale by the bucket.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

Harper's Weekly was the leading illustrated American magazine from before the Civil War to a few years after its end.
 
 
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