1874 - Charlotte Cushman; FRANKFURT GERMANY; Russian Czar; Disraeli; GREAT LAKES

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1874 - Charlotte Cushman; FRANKFURT GERMANY; Russian Czar; Disraeli; GREAT LAKES
APPLETON’S JOURNAL
March 21,
1874
Charlotte Cushman
Frankfurt, Germany
Alexander II
Great Lakes shipping
This is an issue of the illustrated weekly publication,
Appleton’s Journal
, which was
printed over 140 years ago
. It is 32 pages, and measures 8 x 11 inches in size. The paper comes from a bound volume, and has some typical disbinding marks at the spine, but is otherwise in excellent and attractive condition. I
t will be sent in a clear plastic report cover, to help preserve it in the future.
The front page story is on the famous actress
Charlotte Cushman
(1816-1876), with an account of her long career taking up the first 6 pages of the magazine, and headed with a nice portrait on the front page of Cushman, late in her life.
In the middle of the issue is an article on
FRANKFORT
, as part of a series on “Cities of Europe.” This consists of almost a page of text, plus a page of seven
“Scenes in Frankfort,”
which shows:
“General View of Frankfort.”
“Cathedral.”
“Guttenberg Monument.”
“The Roemer.”
“The Ghetto.”
“Palm Garden,”
and,
“Goethe's Birth-Place.”
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Also, in sections in the back of the magazine, on “Miscellany,” are these pieces:
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WITH DISRAELI
— almost a full page (24 column inches) of text written by the late Victor Hugo recounting a visit he had with Benjamin Disraeli in 1868, and translated specifically for
Appleton's,
with numerous quotes from Disraeli, giving his views on France.
***
BEAR-HUNTING WITH ALEXANDER II
— 26 column inches of text on the Russian Emperor, as he goes on a successful bear hunt. It comments,
“The emperor, whi is naturally a sombre, taciturn man, was in unusually good spirits.”
(a page and 1/2 on the great geologist, who was then 75; it includes a nice portrait engraving of the famous scientist):
In a section titled “National and Statistical,” almost a full page (26 column inches of text in small print) is devoted to
COMMERCE OF THE GREAT LAKES
, which begins:
“
The unexampled progress of the commercial growth of the United States is nowhere more forcibly exhibited than in the vast increase of the trade and navigation of the Western lakes . . . . A century ago these unsalted seas were almost untracked, save by the aboriginal canoe, . . . Now these majestic highways support an internal and foreign commerce that keeps employed . . . 700 steamers and 10,000 sailing-vessels . . .”
Etc.
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Background 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.
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