#american magazines

Harper’s August 1896
Edward Penfield (American; 1866–1925)
Poster for Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Four-color lithograph in grey, yellow, red, and black
Published: Harper & Brothers (New York, July 1896)
The New York Public Library, Wallach Division, Art & Architecture Collection

“TOM SAWYER DETECTIVE a new story by Mark Twain begins in this number”

A Christmas Reminder
Udo J. Keppler (American; 1872–1956)
Centerfold illustration in: Puck, Vol. 50, No. 1294 (December 18, 1901)
Chromolithograph
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

Caption
Puck(to Mr. Carnegie). — “Books are already so cheap and libraries so abundant that even the poorest man has all the literature he wants. Now, why not provide respectable homes for the people who are too old to work and who were never able to save anything from their scanty wages; — and so keep them from beggary, starvation or suicide?”