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In 1817, two young brothers, James Harper (22) and John Harper (20), established a small printing firm in New York. Two other brothers, Joseph Harper and Fletcher Harper, joined the company and by 1825 Harper & Brothers was the largest book publisher in the United States. In 1857 the company began publishing Harper's Weekly after a very successful Harpers Monthly. By 1860 the circulation of Harper's Weekly had reached 200,000. The cartoonist, Thomas Nast, was recruited two years later and he was to remain with the magazine for over twenty years. During this period Nast began to distort and exaggerate the physical traits of his subjects and therefore played an important role in the development of political caricature. Nast also originated the idea in America of using animals to represent political parties. In his cartoons the Democratic Party was a donkey and the Republican Party, an elephant. He also helped to develop the character, Uncle Sam, to represent the United States. In the late 19th century Harper's developed a reputation for employing top illustrators such as Frank Bellew, Charles Dana Gibson, Fred Repington, Howard Pyle, James M. Flagg and Maxfield Parrish. After 1900 the magazine devoted more space to political and social issues and featured articles by political figures such as Carl Schurz, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Credit: www.spartacus. Image size 11 x 9 1/4.
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