Collection The Presidents
Biographies & Portraits
Harper's Weekly illustration
- Date of Work
- October 8, 1887
- Credit
- Harper's Weekly/ White House Historical Association
Harper's Weekly illustration
Harper’s Weekly (the “Journal of Civilization”) was published every Tuesday from 1857 to 1916. This illustration from the magazine documents the president’s train trip to the West and through the south. The issue was published October 8, 1887, and sold for ten cents a copy.
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