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Harper's Weekly
The large pictures demonstrate the unusually high quality of this reproduction. In the technology of the time period, pictures were produced by sending an artist to an event. After the artist made his sketches in the field, he would return and convert the sketches into a finished drawing. The drawing was then divided into pieces, each the size of an engraver's block (about the size of a 3 x 5 card). The journeymen engravers would engrave their part of the picture except for a buffer around the edge. The blocks were then gathered together and a master engraver would join all the images into a single unified picture -- it's no wonder that it sometimes took a couple of weeks to publish a picture! In examining some of the large pictures, it is possible to detect the faint hairlines that sometimes occurred when the engraver's blocks were assembled to make the larger pictures. The start of the reproduction begins with the November 10, 1860, issue that announced Lincoln's election. It concludes in February 1865. Single issues of full size reprints are $2.50 each. If you are choosing news for a particular event, remember that during the 1860's it took about three weeks to get the news in print. Check with us first about availability because the publisher currently have no plans to reprint issues after available copies are gone. Also, although we have some issues (See the list of dates below. Just keep scrolling down), we do not keep all of them in stock. We can order issues we don't have but please place your order at least three weeks before you need them to have the best probability of being able to receive them in time. Another way to obtain the newspaper is through a CD version. The CD contains an entire year of 52 issues, using early November as the starting point so it is not an exact calendar year. The images for the CD were scanned at 300 dpi and the software uses Adobe Acrobat reader (which may be downloaded free here from Adobe) to view the images. The viewer is then able to view any size of the image from an entire page (a bit hard to read any of the text except the headlines) down to such a fine level of detail that the individual pixels and "jaggies" can be seen. By adjusting the field of printing, matching levels of detail from whole page to very large zoomed images can be printed with the amount that can be shown on one sheet of printout limited by the magnification employed. The cost for a CD that covers approximately one year is $24.95. Check with us for availability and exact coverage of each CD.
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This publication really isn't a book but it certainly is a reproduction of a period
publication. Although there had been some reprints of Harper's Weekly in the past,
this version certainly deserves a second look. Printed on acid-free
paper, it is very high quality.