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Including illustration titled: 'The Workingman's Mite.' From Harper's Weekly, May 20, 1871.

Including illustration titled: 'Will He Dare Do It?' From Harper's Weekly, March 2, 1878.

Including illustration titled: 'Always Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg.' From Harper's Weekly, March 16, 1878.

Including illustration titled: 'Our Rising Generation.' From Harper's Weekly, October 14, 1871.

Including illustration titled: 'Protecting White Labor.' From Harper's Weekly, March 22, 1879.

Including illustration titled: 'The Quack Frog.' From Harper's Weekly, May 25, 1878.

Including illustration titled: 'Earn More than You Spend.' From Harper's Weekly, March 17, 1883.

Including illustration titled: 'For this Relief, Much Thanks.' From Harper's Weekly, March 17, 1883.

Including illustration titled: 'Between Two Evils.' From Harper's Weekly, March 28, 1874.

Including illustration titled: 'Where Capital and Labor Still Work Together.' From Harper's Weekly, circa 1880s-1900s.

Including illustration titled: 'Cotton Culture in the South.' From Harper's Weekly, July 7, 1883.

Including illustration titled: 'One Reason Why There Are so many Idle Young Men.' From Harper's Weekly, March 26, 1881.

Including illustration titled: 'Interior of a Southern Cotton Press by Night.' From Harper's Weekly, March 24, 1883.

Including illustration titled: 'The First Bale of the Cotton Crop.' From Harper's Weekly, August 21, 1875.

Including illustration titled: 'The Atlanta International Cotton Exposition.' From Harper's Weekly, October 15, 1881.

Including illustration titled: 'The Great Labor Question from a Southern Point of View.' From Harper's Weekly, July 29, 1865.

Including illustration titled: 'The Moss Industry in the South.' From Harper's Weekly, September 2, 1882.

Including illustration titled: 'Working-Women's Protective Union - Hearing Complaint Against Sewing-Machine Dealer.' From Harper's Weekly, February 21, 1874.

Including illustration titled: 'Negroes Driven by the Rebel Officers.' From Harper's Weekly, November 8, 1862.

Including illustration titled: 'The Sugar Harvest in Louisiana.' From Harper's Weekly, October 30, 1875.

Including illustration titled: 'The Manufacture of Iron - Tapping the Furnace.' From Harper's Weekly, November 1,1873.

Including illustration titled: 'Seed that Bears Fruit. Capital the Result of Labor, and Labor the Result of Capital.' From Harper's Weekly, May 18, 1878.

Including illustration titled: 'The Great Strike - Pittsburgh in the Hands of the Mob.' From Harper's Weekly, August 11, 1877.

Including illustrations titled: 'Labor and Capital'; 'Put Yourself in His Place'; 'Content is Happiness'; and 'All is Not Gold That Glitters.' From Harper's Weekly, March 4, 1871.

Including illustration titled: 'The Queen of Industry, or, the New South.' From Harper's Weekly, January 14, 1882.

Including illustration titled: 'The Strike in the Coal Mines - Meeting of Molly M'Guire Men.' From Harper's Weekly, January 31, 1874.

Including illustration titled: 'Hatching. How much longer will birds of prey be allowed to gorge themselves on the savings of the self-denying and industrious - and escape the consequences!' From Harper's Weekly, April 5, 1879.

Including illustration titled: 'Peace with a War Measure.' From Harper's Weekly, Feburary 9, 1878.

Including illustration titled: 'Solution of the Labor Question in the South.' From Harper's Weekly, December 2, 1865.

Including illustration titled: 'Rice Culture on the Ogeechee, Near Savannah, Georgia.' From Harper's Weekly, January 5, 1867.

Including illustration titled: 'The Lebanon Club - New York Working-Men's Coffee-House.' From Harper's Weekly, January 24, 1880.

Broadside of women volunteers at the post office staffing the window, posting messages, and writing letters at the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair, February 1864. Black and white lithograph published by Harper's Weekly, New York, March 5, 1864, page 156, "Any Thing for Me, If You Please?"--Post-Office of the Brooklyn Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission.--[See Page 158.]

Entertainment for soldiers included dramatic presentations and dances. These dances were often held with men, dressed in borrowed finery, substituting for women. Occasionally soldiers were amused by professional itinerant entertainers, or if their camp was close to a town, they would often attend the theater, lectures, or church.

Unity and bipartisanship in Indiana faded and opposition to Lincoln, Morton, and the war became synonymous with treason. One of the demands of "The Degrading Compromise" was "Recognition of the enemy of the Independence of the Confederate States." The poster lists the "conditions for peace" said to be promoted by Copperhead politicians in Indiana. It states these were published in the Richmond Enquirer, referring to it as "the official organ of the rebel government." Citizens of Indiana are encouraged to repel the "Peace Organizations" and support the Union and their brave soldiers., The illustration is by Thomas Nast and was published in Harper's Weekly. This item was part of the Indiana History Train 2006 exhibit: Faces of the Civil War. The broadside measures 16 1/2 x 23 7/8 in. This item is part of the Indiana and the Civil War Educator Curriculum Packet.

From Harper's: The large View of Gettysburg from the West will give the beholder a general idea of the field of battle--a great valley well adapted for the movements of infantry and artillery. Mountains in the back-ground explain why the cavalry could not pursue very far., Description from page 534.

From Harper's Weekly: ... John Burns, the only citizen of Gettysburg who shouldered his rifle and went out to do battle in the Union ranks against the enemies of his country. The old man made his appearance in a uniform which he had worn in the last war, but he fought as stoutly as any young man in the army. Honor to his name! Old Burns's house is there too, a memorial in its way of the fight: from its condition it looks as though it would not be very likely to remain many years as an object of curiosity., Information from page 534.

Beginning upper right: General Mead's Head-quarters, General Lee's Head-quarters, Wheat-Field In Which General Reynolds Was Shot, Entrance to The Cemetery, Barn In Which Reynolds Died, Woods On The Right Of The Battle-Field, College, Used As A Hospital For Rebel Prisoners, Breast-Works In The Woods.

September 23, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt came to Indianapolis to speak at the Columbia Club. Earlier in his trip he had sustained an injury to his left leg and an abscess formed. The president's doctor was travelling with him and asked other doctor's in Indianapolis to examine the wound. All agreed surgery was necessary. Roosevelt was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital where the operation was successfully performed. The president was not able to continue his trip to the west. He was taken on a stretcher to his special train which departed immediately for Washington, D.C. where he would rest for two weeks.

When former president Benjamin Harrison died, his funeral procession proceeded to the statehouse, where his body laid in state. Harper's Weekly newspaper published these images showing the funeral procession, the public paying their repects, and surviving members of his Civil War regiment. [1901]

George Ade was born in Kentland, Indiana. He was well known for his newspaper work in Chicago, and he also authored several books and Broadway plays. With his earnings, he bought land near Brook where his home Hazelden was located, settling there permanently in 1904.

The last year that the Indiana State Fair was held outside of Indianapolis was in 1867 in Vigo County. The newspaper, Harper's Weekly covered the event and declared the fair a success and described Vigo County as the center of agriculture and mineral resources for Indiana.

Harper's Weekly map from September 20, 1862 showing settlements and Railroads