George William Curtis
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George William Curtis was an American writer, reformer, public speaker, and political activist. He was an abolitionist and supporter of civil rights for African Americans and Native Americans. He also
Curtis between 1855 and 1865
George William Curtis in an 1854 portrait by Samuel Laurence
Curtis circa 1890
Harper's Weekly
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Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fictio
George William Curtis
…on a gift book called The Homes of American Authors (1853). Curtis produced a number of volumes, composed of essays written for Putnam's and for Harper's Weekly, which came in rapid succession from his pen. The chief of these were the Potiphar Papers (1853), a satire on the fashionable society of the day; and…
The November 10, 1860 cover of Harper's Weekly, featuring an illustration of President-elect Abraham Lincoln by Winslow Homer and Mathew Brady
The four founders of Harper & Brothers: Fletcher, James, John, and Joseph Wesley Harper in 1860
Harper's Weekly artist Alfred Waud sketching the Gettysburg battlefield, the bloodiest and most decisive battle of the American Civil War
George Harvey, the magazine's editor from 1901 until 1913