Treasures From the Archives

Woman's Home Companion 1909-08

Broadsheet relating to the terrible events of August 17, 1890 when a government official was murdered after drinking, in the bottom section a corrido written by Sergeant Zeferino Martínez who witnessed the event

Woman's Home Companion 1906-08

On the Beach – Two are Company, Three are None, from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVI

"Satan, Don't Get Thee Behind Me!"–Anything to Get Possession, from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 16, p. 641

Thomas Nast American, born Germany Publisher Harper's Weekly American Sitter Horace Greeley American August 17, 1872

Woman's Home Companion 1921-08

Sailing Vessels at Wilders Plads, Copenhagen

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Danish 1830

Group Taking Tea at Lacock Abbey

William Henry Fox Talbot British August 17, 1843

Woman's Home Companion 1922-08

Ste. Claire de Monte-Falco, vierge (St. Clare of Montefalco, Virgin), August 17th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

Landscape painters at work, published in Souvenirs d'Artistes

La Sauveur du Monde (Salvator Mundi), August 16th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

S. Roch, confesseur (St. Roch, Confessor), August 16th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

The Nooning (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

The Morning Before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew (from "Once a Week," August 16, 1862)

A political-geographical anatomy lesson, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

Les Parisiens à Cherbourg, from Actualités, published in Le Charivari, August 16-17, 1858