I have the Harper's Weekly issue with the original "The New Heathen Chinee"
illustration, which I used last year in the "John Chinaman in New York"
article in The Mark Twain Journal.  I would be glad to scan and send it if
it hasn't already been located.

Martin Zehr
Kansas City


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Kevin Mac Donnell <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Yuk, yuk, yuk!
>
> I don't have the Frank Leslie (catalogued, at least) but I have the others.
> They are either too fragile to scan on my high res flatbed scanner, or too
> big, and my digital camera does not have high enough resolution.
>
> I did one Daily Graphic illustration in two scans, but that 1873 Daily
> Graphic cover is too big to fit on my scanner except in fourths, which may
> be too difficult for some Photoshop sharpshooter to align and reassemble,
> but if worse comes to worst...
>
> Kevin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Bush
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 12:11 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Help with illustrations for book
>
> Tracy; I must have this one:
>
> Mark Twain at the Tomb of Adam, Harper's May 1875, p. 848
>
> somewhere;  where exactly is the question.  I'm hunting around in my files,
> more later.
>
> ps: as Wolfgang says, I'm shocked to hear of something Kevin does not own,
> other than a Gutenberg Bible and the complete Audubon volumes of Birds of
> America (last I checked it was the highest auction price ever for any
> book).  Shocked, I say.
>
> -hb
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Lawrence Howe <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Tracy--
> >
> > The Newberry has _Harper's Weekly_, _Daily Graphic_, _Appleton's
> Journal_,
> > =
> > _Century Magazine_ for the dates you cite.  I know this may not be easy
> > for=
> >  you to get to.  If you'd like me to take a look at the volumes and order
> > s=
> > cans or printed copies for you, let me know.=20
> >
> > --LH
> >
> > Larry Howe
> > Professor of English
> > Chair, Department of Literature and Languages
> > Roosevelt University
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Mark Twain Forum [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tracy Wuster
> > [wuster=
> > [log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 10:17 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Help with illustrations for book
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am finishing up work on my book on Mark Twain--"The American Humorist:
> > The Making and Meanings of Mark Twain."  I am trying to round up a few
> > last
> > images.  Kevin MacDonnell helped me out, but a few of the images were not
> > in his collection or were to fragile to be scanned.
> >
> > If anyone has book-quality images they would be able to share (300+dpi,
> > 4x6
> > or 5x8 size), I would be eternally grateful and, of course, give lavish
> > credit in the book.  Here are the images I am looking for:
> >
> > "The New Heathen Chinee" Frank Leslie's Illustrated, July 26, 1873
> >
> > =3DE2=3D80=3D9CTHE LYCEUM COMMITTEEMAN=3DE2=3D80=3D99S
> > DREAM=3DE2=3D80=3D94=
> > SOME POPULAR LECTU=3D
> > RERS IN CHARACTER=3DE2=3D80=3D9D
> > Harper=3DE2=3D80=3D99s Weekly, November 15, 1873.
> >
> > Mark Twain amongst the Britishers, New York Graphic, November 5, 1873
> >
> > American Humorists, with Portraits=3DE2=3D80=3D9D
> > Daily Graphic, October 9, 187359:6 (December 1874), 45.
> > (This was also reprinted in a phrenology journal and as a book cover--I
> > have the book cover).
> >
> > =3DE2=3D80=3D9CMark Twain=3DE2=3D80=3D9D from Appleton=3DE2=3D80=3D99s
> > Jour=
> > nal-- George T. Fe=3D
> > rris, =3DE2=3D80=3D9CMark Twain,=3DE2=3D80=3D9D
> > Appleton=3DE2=3D80=3D99s Journal, XII:276 (July 4, 1874), 15.
> >
> > Mark Twain at the Tomb of Adam, Harper's May 1875, p. 848
> >
> > Mark Twain engraving in the Century, September 1882 (frontispiece)
> >
> > I'd greatly appreciate any help.  Let me know if you have questions.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Tracy Wuster
> >
>
>
>
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