The modern version of Santa Claus arrived in the United States in 1863 in the January 3 issue of Harper’s Weekly. Cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa wearing striped pants and a jacket emblazoned with stars as he sat in a sleigh under a giant American flag. #christmas #santa #harpersweekly

Geburtstag des Zeichners Thomas Nast, dem "Vater" der amerikanischen Karikatur und Erfinder von Santa Clause • WDR5

#OTD 27.9.1840: Geburtstag des Zeichners Thomas Nast, dem "Vater" der amerikanischen Karikatur und Erfinder von Santa Clause • WDR5

#Zeitzeichen #History #Karikatur #Cartoon #HarpersWeekly #Podcast

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🎨 Edmund Dulac Mermaid Prince
🎨 Vintage New York Harper's

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#EdmundDulac #MermaidPoster #FairyTaleArt #ArtNouveau #VintageIllustration #StorybookArt #MermaidArt #VintageNewYork #HarpersWeekly #AntiquePrint #NYCArt #HistoricalPrint #Artsky

#OTD in 1882
‘Women's Day at A New York Swimming Bath Drawn by H. A. Ogden’
*Harpers Weekly*, Sept. 2, 1882
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
#illustration #illustrationart #illustration #illustrationartists #drawings #HAOgden #tenements #TenementLife #NewYorkCity #HarpersWeekly

‘Called For’
*Harpers Weekly*, September 2, 1865
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
#illustration #illustrationart #HarpersWeekly

‘Desk for Information’
*Harpers Weekly*, September 2, 1865
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
#illustration #illustrationart #HarpersWeekly

‘R. R. Ticket Office’
Harpers Weekly, September 2, 1865
#illustration #illustrationart #HarpersWeekly
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck

‘Interior of Depot’
*Harpers Weekly*, September 2, 1865
#illustration #illustrationart #HarpersWeekly
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck

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#OTD in 1865
*Harpers Weekly* on #immigration and the immigrant processing center at #CastleGardens, #BatteryPark, #Manhattan
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‘Outside the Depot’
#HarpersWeekly, September 2, 1865
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
#illustration #illustrationart

#OTD in 1870
#RedCloud, leader of the #OglalaKakotaSioux has spoken at #CooperInstitute in New York
#HarpersWeekly, July 2, 1870
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‘An excerpt from his speech:
“This was all very well until the Great Father sent another kind of men out there - men ➡️

Extra large 2 page ad from the last quarter of the 19th century- probably from a Harper's Weekly. If anyone has any background info I would love it if you shared! #ephemera #FairmountHat #HarpersWeekly #antiques

“On the Bluff at Long Branch, at the Bathing Hour.” Winslow Homer (American; 1836–1910). Wood engraving on paper. Published in “Harper’s Weekly,” August 6, 1870. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

#winslowhomer
#longbranch
#harpersweekly
#smithsonianamericanartmuseum
@americanart

So pleased with these! Found them in a massive, crazy rabbit warren of a poster store in NYC IN October, now I have them framed and ready to hang. Original #navalhistory prints from #HarpersWeekly during the #CivilWar