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Table of Contents
This introduction to HarpWeek answers the following questions:
- What is HarpWeek? A bird’s eye view of the HarpWeek
application.
- What can you do with HarpWeek? An exploration of HarpWeek’s
powerful features.
- How can you get started using HarpWeek? A look at how
to use HarpWeek’s intuitive user interface to take advantage
of its powerful features.
HarpWeek is a web site that provides electronic access to Harper’s
Weekly, the illustrated 19th century "Journal of Civilization,"
for a 56-year period: 1857-1912. HarpWeek's electronic database
makes it possible for you to discover the lively news stories, illustrations,
cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and even advertisements
that shaped and reflected public opinion in this era. Using HarpWeek’s
powerful features, you can browse through 56 years of Harper’s Weekly
page by page, locate specific articles based on search terms or
phrases you specify, or use sophisticated indexing and synopsis
tools to comb through thousands of Harper’s Weekly articles.
Harper's Weekly is perhaps the most important primary resource
for examining 19th-century America. Harper’s Weekly is a consistent,
comprehensive, week-to-week chronological record of what happened
worldwide in the last half of the nineteenth century.
Throughout the rest of this document, the word HarpWeek
will refer to the HarpWeek web site and related functions, and the
words Harper’s Weekly will refer to the Harper’s Weekly publication.
With HarpWeek, you can access the entire contents of Harper’s Weekly
from 1857 to 1912 (*). HarpWeek allows you to access this content
in the way that best facilitates your research and explorations.
With HarpWeek, you can:
- Browse Harper’s Weekly issues by a Table of Contents of included
articles and illustrations
- Browse Harper’s Weekly issues by page images
- Search for text or phrases within the pages of Harper’s Weekly
- Use the thesaurus-based index to find articles
- Search synopses of fictional works within Harper’s Weekly
- Search cross-index groupings using the Subject Headings feature
* Depending on your institution’s subscription to HarpWeek, you
may not have access to all years of Harper’s Weekly content.
HarpWeek features clear, easy-to-read, electronic presentation
of every page of Harper's Weekly. This presentation:
- provides for a pleasurable viewing experience through the integration
of clear, high resolution, grayscale images with an intuitive
software interface;
- enables you to quickly "turn" the full-size electronic
pages while browsing;
- permits simultaneous previewing of several “thumbnail” page
images on a software "light box;"
- provides images in three sizes for easy reading;
- offers the capability for producing high quality image printouts;
- allows you to save pages as JPEG files; and
- renders the small typeface commonly used by 19th century printers
more legible than in the original pages of Harper's Weekly.
Along with an electronic presentation of every page of Harper’s
Weekly, HarpWeek features an extensive Table of Contents for every
issue of Harper’s Weekly. This Table of Contents gives you access
to articles and illustrations included in the pages of Harper’s
Weekly.
The HarpWeek text-search feature provides several powerful options
to help you create effective queries. These options include:
- Word or Phrase Searching
- Proximity Searching (e.g. find two words or phrases that appear
within 50 words of each other in the same article or caption)
- Full Date Range Searching
- Feature Filtering to limit searches to one of 16 Harper’s Weekly
"Features": Advertisements, Article series, Biographical
sketches/obituaries, Cartoons, Editorials, Fiction, Government
announcements, Humor/satirical commentaries, Illustrations, Maps,
News stories/items, Panoramic views, Poetry, Portraits, Publisher's
notices and Travel narratives.
Since 1995, up to 12 subject area indexers, each with an advanced
academic degree, have read every word and studied every illustration
and cartoon in Harper’s Weekly. They have carefully constructed
user-friendly indexes that will guide you in locating information
quickly and concisely. The information is presented in an easy-to-
navigate, alphabetical, multi-level structure familiar to scholars,
reference librarians and students alike. Descriptive sub-entries
will help you determine the relative value of the references by
giving you specific information about an entry prior to display.
HarpWeek’s indexes have been specifically created to be meaningful
to today’s user. The indexes effectively match out-of-date 19th
century words, phrasing, and even spelling with today’s terminology
and relevant classifications. The indexes include:
Subject
HarpWeek’s subject index provides instantaneous information on
domestic and foreign news, as well as related editorials. In addition,
hundreds of personalities who were part of the Harper’s Weekly
universe are profiled here.
Illustrations
As the leading illustrated periodical of its time, Harper’s Weekly
used the best artists, photographers and cartoonists in the country.
HarpWeek recognizes these important contributions to indexing
all illustrations by artist, photographer and cartoonist wherever
identifiable.
Literature & Publishing
Harper’s Weekly may be best known as the home for the first American-
run serialized novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas
Hardy, Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollope. The index provides
access to the literature by author, title, publisher and format
(review, serial, etc.).
Advertising
No previous indexing effort has cataloged every advertisement
that appeared in a long-running 19th century periodical. In HarpWeek,
Ads are classified by manufacturer, product category and brand
and, where appropriate, by retailer.
Throughout the course of its run, Harper’s Weekly featured nearly
2,700 fictional works. HarpWeek indexers have summarized many of
these works in the form of Literary Synopses. Using HarpWeek’s Synopsis
feature, you can access these indexer-authored summaries. Serialized
works, that is, works that spanned multiple issues of Harper’s Weekly,
can be accessed by installment from a convenient summary document.
Using HarpWeek’s search features, you can find text or phrases within
these summaries and then be directed to the original work as it
first appeared within Harper’s Weekly.
Four directory-like Subject Headings (Geography, Literary Genre,
Occupation/Role and Subjects) provide a useful tool for cross-index
access to Harper’s Weekly content. Each directory represents a hierarchical
network of related concept categories; these categories are navigated
in a top-to-bottom fashion to reveal specific references within
Harper’s Weekly.
A navigational menu appears at the top of each HarpWeek web page.
Regardless of where you are on the HarpWeek web site, you can choose
any of HarpWeek’s powerful features with just one click. The navigational
menu contains three service links that you can use to retrieve Harper’s
Weekly content. These links are:
Browse Issue
Use this link to access HarpWeek’s browse options to view a specific
issue:
- Browse Harper’s Weekly issues by Table of Contents
- Browse Harper’s Weekly issues by page images
Search
Click this link to access HarpWeek’s search options to search for
words or phrases:
- within the features of Harper’s Weekly
- within the thesaurus-based index
- within the authored synopses of fictional works published within
Harper’s Weekly
Subject Headings
Use this link to browse through HarpWeek’s cross-index directories
of Geography, Literary Genre, Occupation/Role and Subjects.
The “Browse Issues” link appears in the navigation bar at the top
of each page. Selecting this link opens a new page giving you access
to HarpWeek’s three browse options:
- Preview an issue by viewing an article/illustration Table of
Contents
- Browse an issue by viewing individual full page pages
- Preview an issue by viewing thumbnail (miniature) page images
in a photo “light box” viewer
When you select the Browse Issues
link, you will open a new page that is divided into two sections.
Browsing an issue is a three-step process:
The top section of this page is labeled “Select a Volume” This
section lists all the Harper’s Weekly volumes that are accessible
to you. You may choose to view issues in any of these volumes. The
application selects the first year for which you are authorized
as your default volume.
Once you’ve accepted or selected a volume, you will next select
a view option. Directly underneath the “Select an Issue” label,
three View Options are offered:
- Table of Contents: Choosing this option will allow you to browse
a list of all articles and illustrations in a selected issue.
From this list, you can select individual articles to view. The
default View Option is Table of Contents.
- Full Page Images: This option will display the pages of a specified
issue, one page at a time. Using this option, you can “flip through”
the full-size pages of Harper’s Weekly, much as you might read
a newspaper.
- Issue Thumbnails: This option will display all pages of a particular
issue as thumbnail-sized images and allows you to preview an entire
issue and select specific pages to view at a higher resolution.
After selecting a Volume and a Browse Option, the final step is
to select the specific issue to view. The bottom section is labeled
“Select an Issue (Volume:nnnn),” where nnnn is the volume
highlighted in the “Select a Volume” section. This section lists
all the Harper’s Weekly issues available in the selected volume.
Once you click on an issue, a new page will display the selected
issue based on your selected View Option. To select a new volume,
just click the Browse Issues link from any page and start
again!
As mentioned in Step 2 (above), there are three options
for viewing an issue: Table of Contents, Full Page Images and Issue
Thumbnails. Each option provides a unique way of viewing the contents
of Harper’s Weekly.
When you choose the Table of Contents option, you will be presented
with a list of all articles and illustrations that appears in the
chosen issue. From this page, you have several options:
- Click on the hyperlinked title of an article or illustration
to view its text contents and thumbnail image(s) of the page(s)
on which it appears.
- Use the “Issue Date” pop-up menu to view the Table of Contents
of another issue in the same volume.
- Use the “View” pop-up menu to change your view from Table of
Contents to either Full Page Images or Issue Thumbnails.
- Use the Previous Issue and Next Issue links to view the Table
of Contents for the immediately surrounding issues.
When you choose the Full Page Images option, you will be presented
with a full-size version of the first page of the selected issue.
From this page, you have several options:
- Click the Next Page link to view the full-size page image of
the next page in the issue.
- Use the “Issue Date” pop-up menu to view full-size page images
of another issue in the same volume.
- Use the “View” pop-up menu to change your view from Full Page
Images to either Table of Contents or Issue Thumbnails.
- Use the “Page Index” link to view significant concepts that
appear on this page.
- Use the “Image Size” pop-up menu to change the image size of
the page image. Choosing a larger image size can make it much
easier to view the contents of a page.
- Use the “Printable Version” link to download a printer-friendly
PDF version of the page. (This option is only available on selected
issues of Harper’s Weekly.)
When you choose the Issue Thumbnails option, you will be presented
with thumbnail-size images for each page of the chosen issue. From
this web page, you have several options:
- Click the thumbnail of any image to see an image version of
that page.
- Use the “Issue Date” pop-up menu to view the Issue Thumbnails
of another issue in the same volume.
- Use the “View” pop-up menu to change your view from Issue Thumbnails
to either Table of Contents or Full Page Images.
- Use the Previous Issue and Next Issue links to view the Issue
Thumbnails of the immediately surrounding issues.
How to view a full-size page image using the Issue Thumbnails page:
- Click on the thumbnail image of the desired page. Note: When
you click on the thumbnail image, you will be changing from the
Issue Thumbnails view to Full Page Images view. For help with
the Full Page Images view, see the Full Page Images section, above.
Viewing an Article
How to view an article using the Table of Contents:
- Click the hyperlinked title of the desired article or illustration.
- On the next page, you will see the text of that article or illustration
along with related information (volume, issue and page range information)
at the top of the page. (Note: some articles or illustrations
do not have any associated text.) On the left side of the page
you will see one or more thumbnail-sized page images. Each of
these images represents an issue page on which the article or
illustration was printed. You can click on the thumbnail image
to view a full-size version of the page. (Note: When you click
on the thumbnail image to view a full-size page, you will be changing
from the Table of Contents view to Full Page Images view. For
help with Full Page Images view, see the Full Page Images section,
above.)
Page Index
When viewing articles in Full Page Image mode, you have the option
of viewing a Page Index, a list of index entries which appear on
that page. From the Page Index page, you can view the associated
page images for any index entry by clicking on its hyperlinked title.
From the main search page, you have
four search options:
- Full Article Text – Standard Search
- Full Article Text – Proximity Search
- Harper’s Weekly Indices
- Literary Synopses
Using the Full Article Text feature, you can search HarpWeek’s
full-text database – an accurately typed facsimile of all the text
found within the pages of Harper’s Weekly – for any word or phrase.
When you perform a successful search, you will receive a list of
articles matching your search criteria to view. When you choose
an article to view, any associated text will be displayed with matching
words and phrases highlighted within the text.
Highlights of the searching methods available include the following:
- Word or Phrase Searching
- Proximity Searching
- Limit Searching to one of (16) "Features" of the original
Harper's Weekly pages:
- Advertisements
- Biographical sketches/obituaries
- Cartoons
- Editorials
- Fiction
- Government Proclamations
- Harper's Weekly Columns
- Illustrations
- News stories
- Maps
- Panoramic Views
- Poetry
- Portraits
- Publisher's Notices
- Travel narratives
- Full Date Range Searching
HarpWeek’s Standard Search and Proximity Search features are very
similar in appearance and functionality. Using Standard Search,
you can search for a single word or phrase within the pages of Harper’s
Weekly. Using Proximity Search, you can search for two words or
phrases that appear within 50 words of each other within Harper’s
Weekly content.
- From the main search page, choose Full Text Article – Standard
Search or Full Text Article – Proximity Search.
- For a Standard Search, enter your word or phrase in the Search
String box. For a Proximity Search, enter the first word or phrase
in the Search Term 1 box. Repeat for the second word/phrase in
the Search Term 2 box.
- For more detailed information, see Notes About Text Searches
in HarpWeek, below.
- (Optional) Specify additional search criteria:
- Sort order: Allows you to specify the order in which the
search results list will be displayed.
- Features: Allows you to limit search results to one of 16
Feature types. See the list above for available Features.
- From/To date: Limit the resulting list by publication date.
- Click Search. A new page will display articles and illustrations
which contain your search term(s).
Viewing Articles and Illustrations
Based on Your Search Term(s)
From this page, you can navigate among all search results using
the navigation links (First Page, Previous Page, Next Page and Last
Page) near the top of the page. Once you find an article or illustration
of interest to you, you can view the text (with your search terms
highlighted) & page image(s) associated with it:
- Click the hyperlinked title of the desired article or illustration.
- On the next page, you will
see the text of that article or illustration along with related
information (volume, issue and page range information) at the
top of the page. (Note: some articles or illustrations do not
have any associated text.) On the left side of the page you will
see one or more thumbnail-sized page images. Each of these images
represents an issue page on which the article or illustration
was printed. You can click on the thumbnail image to view a full-size
version of the page. (Note: When you click on the thumbnail image
to view a full-size page, you will be changing from the Table
of Contents view to Full Page Images view. For help with Full
Page Images view, see the Full Page Images section above.)
When you perform a text search in the HarpWeek product, you have
several options:
- Enter a single word: Your search will return all documents
containing that word.
- Enter multiple words or a phrase: Your search will return
documents that best match the words and/or phrases in the query.
- Enter a Boolean search: Enter multiple words, multiple
phrases with quote marks, or a combination of these, separated
with the Boolean operators AND, OR, or AND NOT.
- AND will return documents that contain both words/phrases.
For example, the search “Lincoln AND Booth” will only return
documents that contain both “Lincoln” and “Booth.”
- OR will return documents than contain either term/phrase.
For example, the search “Lincoln OR Booth” will return documents
that contain either “Lincoln” or “Booth.”
- AND NOT is used to exclude documents that match a previous
restriction. For example, the search “Lincoln AND Booth AND
NOT assassination” will return all documents that contain “Lincoln”
and “Booth” but not “assassination.”
- Boolean operators can be used in combination with one another.
For example, “Lincoln AND (mother OR father) will return all
documents that contain “Lincoln” and either “father” or “mother”
or both “father” and “mother.”
Notes
- An asterisk (*) placed after a string of characters will find
that string followed by any number of characters (e.g.: grant*
will find Grant, Grantley, granting, granted, etc.).
- A double asterisk (**) placed after a string of characters will
find all derivatives of the root of that string (e.g.: women**
will find women, woman, women's, etc.).
- Searches that include special characters (such as &, |,
^, #, @, and $) must be surrounded by quote marks
- Searches are not case-sensitive (A search for “Lincoln” will
return the same results as a search for “lincoln.”)
- To search for the words “contains” or “equals” or “near,” you
must use quotation marks.
- Certain words, letters and numbers are ignored in a search.
For a complete list of excluded terms, see Excluded Search
Terms, below.
The HarpWeek Index database is comprised of four separate indexes:
- Subject
- Illustrations
- Literature & Publishing
- Advertising
Each of the indexes is identical in structure and is arranged hierarchically
and relationally. The core structure of an index consists of two
levels: Main Entry and Sub Entry. In the display of search results,
the Main and Sub Entries are usually displayed as below:
Main Entry
Sub Entry
The top level in each of the indexes consists of main entries;
these are the primary units for organizing the material found in
Harper's Weekly. Broadly defined, main entries group together material
about a particular topic, individual, geographic entity, literary
work, consumer product, etc.
The second level consists of sub-entries. Sub-entries are words,
phrases, or names that further refine material as it relates to
a distinct main entry. Each main entry carries with it one or more
sub-entries which are refining subsets of that main entry. Sub-entries
are accessed from main entries.
When performing a word search on the HarpWeek indexes, both Main
and Sub Entries are searched.
Main Entry/Sub Entry search results link to page references, the
lowest level. A page reference points the user to the specific page(s)
and column(s) in which the Main Entry/Sub Entry concept is found
in Harper's Weekly.
Each page reference has three components:
- Issue date
- Page number
- Column (always in parentheses)
Examples include the following:
- 1859-01-03 p117 c2: Page 117, Column 2, within the Jan. 3, 1859
issue.
- 1859-01-03 p117 c2-4: Page 117, Columns 2 through 4, within
the Jan. 3, 1859 issue.
Subject Index
HarpWeek’s subject index provides information on domestic and foreign
news, editorials, and people, classified in a way that is meaningful
to today's scholars and students. Users can track the major political,
social and military stories of the day, along with the editorial
comment, humor, literature and even gossip that related to them.
Personalities who were part of the Harper's Weekly universe are
profiled here. The Subject Index catalogs information relating to
specific individuals found on the pages of Harper's Weekly, and
involves more than a listing of major personages; any person receiving
substantive treatment is indexed. While the majority of individuals
indexed are Americans, foreigners also have a strong presence. Major
political, social, religious, and military figures from Africa,
Asia, Europe, and South America are indexed.
Names of individuals are listed with the last name first. Sub-entries
connected to biographical main entries are topical items related
to an individual's life as reported in the pages of Harper's Weekly.
For instance, the sub-entry "Civil War, Battle of Gettysburg"
under the main entry "Lee, Robert Edward" indicates Lee's
involvement in that pivotal battle, and provides a link to the item
references where this information is found. Sub-entries concerning
the Civil War often begin with "Civil War" to allow for
the grouping and retrieval of relevant information about a person's
participation in the conflict.
Illustrations Index
The Illustrations Index catalogs the maps, panoramic views, portraits,
cartoons, and other visual images found in Harper's Weekly. Unlike
standard illustration indexes, the HarpWeek Illustrations Index
goes deeper than a mere listing of captions and titles of illustrated
images. Each illustration is indexed in a way that captures its
content comprehensively. Illustrated images are indexed from a number
of different perspectives, including topic and geography. The index
also includes the names of the engravers, illustrators, and photographers
who produced the images, whenever they could be identified.
Literature & Publishing Index
The Literature & Publishing Index catalogs titles of works,
along with the names of authors whose works were published in Harper’s
Weekly, and publishers and distributors who advertised in the newspaper.
The titles of published literary works make up the majority of
main entries in the Literature & Publishing Index. All poems,
short prose, and serialized novels are indexed, as are the occasional
literary series. Another feature of the index is the chronicling
of other newspapers and magazines as a news source. The many books,
magazines, newspapers, and other publications advertised in Harper’s
Weekly are also listed.
Publishing histories can be followed through the lists of publishers,
which appear as sub-entries under the titles of published works,
or sometimes as main entries. The names of authors whose works were
published in Harper’s Weekly are indexed as main entries,
with their works as sub-entries. Biographical information about
these authors can be found in the Subject Index.
HarpWeek has prepared a synopsis for every significant fictional
work in Harper’s Weekly. These synopses can be accessed using the
Search Synopsis feature.
Advertising Index
The Advertising Index is organized by main entries that fall into
three broad categories:
Products (Product Category)
Product category main entries are consumer products that were
advertised in the newspaper. Clothing, jewelry, china and glassware,
curtains and window coverings, and medical remedies are among
the product main entries found in the index. Manufacturers of
these goods, some still in business today (Bass Ale, Lea &
Perrins, and Singer Sewing Machines), are also included.
Topics (Topical entries)
Joining entries on products are topical main entries related
to advertising techniques, economics, and marketing. Gift enterprises
and sales premiums, Mail Order, Marketing, Regional and National
Markets, Product Testing, and Holiday Sales are examples of topical
main entries in the Advertising Index. Product marketing and distribution,
business trends, production costs and capacity, and patent rights
and infringement are some of the subjects tracked through the
use of topical main entries. Advertising techniques such as the
use of personal endorsements, verse, iteration, and multiple inserts
are categorized, allowing for easy retrieval.
Biographical entries
Biographical main entries in the Advertising Index fall into
two categories: (1) individuals associated with testimonials or
product endorsement; (2) individuals whose names are associated
with products (such as Lincoln portraits).
- Select the Index (es) you would like to search within by marking
the check boxes next to them (by default, all indices are selected):
- Subject
- Illustrations
- Literature & Publishing
- Advertising
- (Optional) Limit your search results by month and/or year. By
default, all months & years are included in your search.
- (Optional) Choose the preferred order in which you would like
to view your results. You may choose to sort your search results
alphabetically by Main Entry, or by their source index (all subjects
followed by illustrations, etc). The default sort order is alphabetical.
- Enter your search word(s)/phrase in the text box. For complete
information about specifying search words(s)/phrases, see Notes
About Text Searches in HarpWeek, above.
- Click the Search button. The results of your search will display
on a separate page.
After entering a search term or phrase on the previous page, a
new page will open which will display the results of your search.
Sub Entry values will be displayed directly underneath their associated
Index Main Entry.
You have several options on this page:
- You can view the associated page images for any index entry
by clicking on its hyperlinked title.
- You can further limit the results by entering a search term
or phrase in the Search within results textbox and and
clicking the Search button. This will return a new set
of results that contains only those words/phrases.
Note: Once you enter a term
in the Search within results textbox and click the Search
button, that term will be included in all subsequent refinements
of your search. If you wish to remove the term from your search,
you must start a new search by clicking the New Search link
on the Index Search Results page.
Consider this sample search: You first search for "Lincoln"
using the Index Search feature. Then, using the Search within
results feature, you refine your search with the term "Douglas."
After that, you again use the Search within results feature
to further refine your search with the term "Todd."
At this point, your search will include all documents that contain
"Lincoln" and "Douglas" and "Todd."
If, after searching for "Lincoln" and "Douglas,"
you decide to search for "Lincoln" and "Todd,"
you MUST begin an entirely new search. If you do not begin a
new search, the term "Douglas" will be included within
all your subsequent searches. This behavior will occur even
if you use your browser's back button to move to a previous
search.
- You can browse through the list using the navigation links (First
Page, Previous Page, Next Page and Last Page) near the top of
the page.
After choosing a combined index entry (or a concept, if you are
using the Subject Headings feature), you will see thumbnail-size
images of all pages that include references to that index entry/concept.
To view a full-size version of a specific page, click on the thumbnail
image. If the index entry/concept has multiple pages, you can use
the page/column drop-down menu to quickly move to any page. You
can move sequentially through all pages by using the <<Previous
Page and Next Page>> links. Alternately, you can
browse through full-size versions of all pages by clicking the Full
Page Image drop-down menu option near the top of the page.
Besides making the pages readable,
viewing the full-size page images offers you access to additional
page index information. Using the links and menus at the top of
the page, you can:
- Quickly return to the previous page of thumbnail images by choosing
the Page Thumbnails drop-down menu option.
- View a list of all index entries (Main and Sub) contained on
that page by choosing the Page Index drop-down menu option.
From there, you can access other publication pages containing
similar concepts.
- View all the pages of the associated issue of Harper’s Weekly
by choosing the View Issue Thumbnails drop-down menu option.
- If the index entry/concept has multiple pages, you can you use
the page/column drop-down menu to quickly move to any page. You
can move sequentially through all pages by using the<<Previous
Page and Next Page >> links.
- Using the page size drop-down menu, you can change the image
size to make it easier to view.
HarpWeek has prepared a synopsis for significant fictional works
published in Harper’s Weekly (nearly 2,700 pieces in total). Using
the Literary Synopsis feature, you can access synopses (or summaries)
for each of these works. For works that span multiple issues of
Harper’s Weekly, you can access individual installments from a consolidated
summary document.
Generally speaking, viewing a literary synopsis consists of four
different steps:
- Begin the search process at the main Literary Synopsis search
page.
- Choose a synopsis from the list you created in step #1
- Within the selected synopsis, select an installment to view.
- View the text and page images associated with the synopsis.
On the main Literary Synopsis search page, you may enter a search
term and click the Search button or choose to browse all synopses
by click the List All Synopses link. If you choose to search,
the term you enter will be evaluated against all available synopses
and a list of only those synopses matching your query will be returned.
(For more information about text searching, see Notes about Text
Searches in HarpWeek, above.)
Once you successfully complete step #1, you will be presented with
a list of literary synopses that meet the criteria you specified.
From this list, you can choose a synopsis by clicking on its hyperlinked
title.
If your search returned more than 10 literary synopses, you can
browse through the list using the navigation links (First Page,
Previous Page, Next Page and Last Page) near the top of the page.
If you would like to refine your results, you can enter another
query that operates only on the current result set. To do so, enter
the word or phrase in the Search Within Results text box
and click the Search button.
Once you have found the synopsis you wish to view, click its hyperlinked
title to open the associated synopsis document.
After choosing a synopsis in step #2, the related literary synopsis
document is displayed. This document contains synopses of each installment
of a given fictional work. Most synopses consist of only one installment,
meaning that the complete literary work was published in a single
issue of Harper’s Weekly. Other synopses represent fictional works
that were published in multiple Harper’s Weekly issues; each installment
within these synopses describes only the portion of the work which
was published in a specific issue of Harper’s Weekly.
To view the article text and page images for a particular installment,
click the “View Harper’s Weekly Article” link which appears directly
below that installment.
After choosing an installment in step #3, you will be presented
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