A scarce print memorializing a young martyr of the American Republican Party (a precursor of the Know-Nothing Party), the first nativist to be killed in a series of anti-Catholic riots that shook the City of Brotherly Love in 1844. George Shifler, a nineteen-year-old apprentice tanner, is shown here the moment.....
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Six original illustrations for Liberty magazine’s serialized publication of the novel The Red Napoleon (1929), an early fictional account of a full-scale Soviet invasion and attempted conquest of the world. The acclaimed war correspondent, journalist and novelist Floyd Gibbons (1887–1939) first published The Red Napoleon in Liberty magazine, which commissioned.....