1870 mag - HARVARD COLLEGE, illustrated; home on PASCAGOULA River, Mississippi For Sale

1870 mag - HARVARD COLLEGE, illustrated; home on PASCAGOULA River, MississippiAPPLETON’S JOURNAL
March 5, 1870Harvard
Pascagoula RiverThis is an issue of the illustrated weekly publication, Appleton’s Journal, which was published over 150 years ago. It is 28 pages long, and measures 8 x 11 inches in size. The paper came from a bound volume and has some typical minor disbinding marks at the spine, but is otherwise in excellent condition, showing only a bit of age browning. It will be shipped in a clear report binder, to help keep it safe from deterioration in the future.The cover article is titled HARVARD COLLEGE, and features an attractive wood engraving captioned FIRST GLIMPSE OF HARVARD. The article is 7 pages of text, interspersed with nine additional engravings of on scenes on the college campus. These illustrations are of:* Harvard Square.
* Harvard Church.
* Appleton Chapel.
* Library Building.
* Divinity School.
* Law School.
* Lawrence Scientific School.
* The Observatory.
* "Class-Tree," Harvard

The accompanying text describes the pictured buildings in some detail, and offers an amusing comment on the Harvard Square scene: “The stampede of cattle in our picture is not a freak of the artist's imagination, but a common feature in this scene, Harvard Square being a sort of half-way post between the two great cattle-markets that supply the city of Boston and its immediate vicinity; and the town-pump, conspicuous in our picture, is about the last place at which those wretched animals can refresh themselves on 'their way to dusty death.' ”After the extensive description of Harvard's facilities, the text then discusses the university's organization, and gives some facts about Cambridge. At the time, Harvard's “officers of instruction and government number nearly one hundred, and the number of students . . . are eleven hundred and seven.”The article's closing paragraph says: “We have thus sketched some of the external features that make up the surroundings of Harvard University, which presents to the student a home unsurpassed in its attractions, as well as in the advantages offered, by any other college in the country. Under its new president, Charles Eliot, a graduate of the class of 1853, and just inaugurated, the youngest man ever elevated to this high and responsible office, a new career of prosperity seems open to the venerable university, which, mindful that more than two centuries have passed over her head, seems to be seeking out new methods, adapted to the changing times, but ever faithful to the motto of her seal, ‘Veritas,’ and dedicated, as in the past, ‘Christo et Ecclesiae.’ ” * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
The issue also has an illustrated article on “A HOME ON THE PASCAGOULA,” with a lovely wood engraving of this large but crude dwelling, with its owner out front, among several of his enslaved workers and children. It describes him as a cotton planter, but does not identify him, but gives some description of the nearby pine woods of Mississippi, noting:“Deer and turkeys are the two most profitable kinds of game now hunted on the upper waters of the Pascagoula; but to those who fancy them — and who does not? — the sport of quail-shooting is inexhaustible. Those who enjoy the killing of ugly creatures can there amuse themselves by hunting wild-cats; and those who have the good sense to appreciate a roasted opossum can here luxuriate on them to perfection.”The text ends with this note: “My last news from that region was, that five grown-up sons of the spar-cutting nabob had entered the Confederate army, only one of whom survived.”The issue also has a two-page article as part of a series on poverty in New York City “THE ‘DANGEROUS CLASSES’ OF NEW YORK, AND WHAT IS BEING DONE FOR on this publication: Appleton’s Journal was an illustrated weekly paper published in New York. Its parent company was D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, which at the time was one of America’s leading book publishers. The paper was founded in 1869, and achieved a widespread, but shortlived national popularity during the next six years. It carried some serial fiction, but most of its content was devoted to essays on Americana subjects, plus the arts and sciences. Following several changes in editors, however, it began suffering a decline in circulation. It subsequently switched to monthly publication after 1876, and went out of business in 1881.49[p1283]_gsrx_vers_1736 (GS 9.9.5 (1736))