About a year ago I really scored when I found a book containing a bound year's worth of a weekly German newspaper in an antique store. The Illustrierte Zeitung, published in Leipzig, dating back to 1845, was the first German newspaper to carry illustrations! Woodcuts, to be precise.
The attached, timely picture, is called "Der Weihnachtsmarkt in Berlin" (Christmas-market in Berlin"). To place it in time ~ the Civil War ended two decades after this paper was published!
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