A page from Harper's Weekly, August 1878, featuring an illustrated correspondence from the Highlands — a woodcut of the Sea Bird arriving and a column of type on Fenimore Cooper's Water Witch shore

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Harper's Weekly, August 17, 1878

1878-08-17

A page from Harper's Weekly, August 1878. The magazine ran illustrated correspondence from the Highlands nearly every summer through the 1870s and 1880s. This one — headlined *The Highlands of Navesink* — carries a woodcut of the *Sea Bird* landing and one of the phrases that stuck: *fishermen and artists, yachtsmen and clammers, working the same waters.*

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Title: Harper's Weekly, August 17, 1878
Date: 1878-08-17
Source: Placeholder — stand-in for Harper's Weekly, Aug 17, 1878.
Contributor: Placeholder — stand-in for the Highlands borough archive
Rights: Placeholder — replace before publishing
Slug: painted-shore-harpers-1878

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Harper's Weekly, August 17, 1878 (1878-08-17). Placeholder — stand-in for Harper's Weekly, Aug 17, 1878. The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/painted-shore-harpers-1878/.