We went down to St. Augustine to a very small antique book/magazine store in what used to be the pool of a historic hotel. Above it is the Lightner Museum. No pictures of that but I did get some of the courtyard outside.

And some of the local wildlife.

The goal was to find some old Harper's Weeklys. We saw them two years ago when we were last in St. Augustine and were hoping there were still some there. Fortunately the shop still had a few. Picked up two along with a copy of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The Frank Leslie is dated Sept. 26 1863. One Harper's is from June 14, 1962 and the other is from May 7, 1898. I found then to be full of interesting articles, ads and drawings including a nice Winslow Homer illustration of various aspects of the Civil War.

I found the advertising from the civil war era ones to be particularly intriguing. Some of the ads are the same sort of stuff you see in magazines today. Health cures, entertainment, clothing and household items. I took these pictures with the plastic cover on so they are a little shiny. Trying not to get them dirty.

Some others are for things you don't see much of nowadays. Several ads for agents to sell stuff. Farmland to be had just south of Philadelphia. Pianos and a portable copying press.

Also things to commemorate your time in the war that wasn't over yet. Pins and presentation swords. It seems anyone could send off for these which makes one wonder about fraud. The ad for artificial limbs is a somber reminder.

Just a note. It is not uncommon for these things to be reproduced so these may or may not be originals, but the content is interesting just the same.