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REF. TA-HAR-0018| Publication | Harper's Bazar |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, New York |
| Year | 1895 |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Format | Original magazine issue |
| Provenance | Private Collection |
An original 1895 issue of Harper's Bazar, published weekly in New York by Harper & Brothers. It records American fashion and illustration at the close of the nineteenth century.
This is an original issue of Harper's Bazar from 1895, published in New York by Harper & Brothers, when the magazine still appeared every week.
A weekly record of fashion, 1895.
Harper & Brothers founded Harper's Bazar in 1867, taking the Berlin magazine Der Bazar as its model. It is often described as America's first fashion magazine, and in the 1890s it combined fashion plates and patterns with fiction and essays.
The 1890s in America were years of rapid growth in cities, department stores and the illustrated press. Magazines such as Harper's Bazar brought European fashion to American readers week by week.
Read today, the issue shows how fashion was presented to American women before photography replaced illustration: through engraved plates, patterns and descriptive text.
Fashion before the photograph.
Weekly magazines were read and discarded, and paper of the period is fragile. Original issues are collected as records of American fashion and publishing history.
Nineteenth-century fashion magazines are collected by historians of dress and of publishing.
Weekly issues were read and discarded, and paper of the period is fragile.
Interest in the history of dress continues through museums and exhibitions.
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