1875 View of a Frozen Fish Market in St. Petersburg from Harpers Weekly

11.5" x 16" newsprint Lithographic sketch in fine condition. Likely some very minor chips at papers edge from age and storage but not effecting image. A newspaper page from an annual bound edition covering events of the day. The primary source of information for most Americans at the time were illustrated Newspapers being published in the major US cities like this example covering : The sale and Transit of Fish which has frozen in St Petersburg Russia , unusual subject of great importance