Harper's Weekly, 19 April 1862 Size:15.5 x 11 Advertising the prehistoric stilt house

Advertising the prehistoric stilt house piles found in a lake in the Swiss Alps

Artists: Victor Moscoso

Artist Siegfried Odermatt

one fold in the middle

"Le gaz butane

Harper's Weekly, 19 April 1862 Size:15.5 x 11 Advertising the prehistoric stilt house"Shipping Artillery at Alexandria, Virginia" Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization, was an American political magazine that ran from 1857 to 1916. It covered the American Civil War quite extensively, and used renowned illustrators at the time, notably Winslow Homer, Granville Perkins, Porte Crayon, and Livingston Hopkins. Perhaps most famous, however, was political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who was known as the 'father of political cartooning'.