{"title":"A.B. Frost Original Prints \u0026 Newspapers","description":"\u003cp\u003eArthur Burdett Frost (1851–1928) was one of America's most beloved illustrators, celebrated for his warm, humorous depictions of rural American life, hunting, fishing, and sport. His Harper's Weekly centerfolds capturing the early golf craze of the 1890s are among the most sought-after pieces in sports illustration history. Frost's work combines technical mastery with a gentle wit that made him a favorite of Mark Twain and collectors ever since. These original issues featuring A.B. Frost illustrations are rare finds for sports memorabilia collectors and lovers of American illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"harper-s-weekly-december-17-1887-frederick-stuart-church-christmas-supplement-a-b-frost-logging-camp-madre-de-dios","title":"Harper’s Weekly – December 17, 1887 – Frederick Stuart Church Christmas Supplement • A.B. Frost • Logging Camp • Madre de Dios","description":"---\n\nHarper’s Weekly – December 17, 1887 – Frederick Stuart Church Christmas Supplement • A.B. Frost • Logging Camp • Madre de Dios 🎄🐻\n\nA richly illustrated and highly collectible December 17, 1887 issue of Harper’s Weekly, complete with the rare Christmas Supplement featuring Frederick Stuart Church, the celebrated American artist known for his imaginative animal scenes. This issue combines holiday charm, winter humor, frontier life, and major engineering illustrations—excellent for collectors of 19th-century Americana.\n\n⭐ Highlights of the Main Issue\n\nFront Page Illustration:\n“The Boom in Madre de Dios” — dramatic expedition art by Frank H. Norton 🏔️\n\nDouble-Page Centerfold by A.B. Frost:\n“Lost Their Way” — a humorous and detailed winter scene by one of America’s most beloved illustrators ❄️\n\nLogging \u0026amp; Frontier Life:\nFull-page: “The Call to Dinner in a Logging Camp” 🌲\n\nEngineering Feats:\nTwo impressive engravings showing the construction of the new cantilever bridge at Niagara\n\nAdditional engravings, portraits, serialized fiction, news, and Victorian advertisements throughout.\n\n\n🎄 Frederick Stuart Church Christmas Supplement (Included)\n\nThis copy includes the desirable full-page Christmas Supplement featuring:\n\nFrederick Stuart Church’s “Great Expectations” 🐻✨\nA whimsical holiday scene showing anthropomorphic bears preparing a festive feast.\nChurch was renowned for his imaginative animal illustrations, and his Christmas prints are among the most sought-after Harper’s Weekly artworks—often removed from issues, making complete copies like this one uncommon.\n\n\n📏 Size\n\nComplete folio issue, approx. 11\" × 16\" including the Church supplement.\n\n🗂 Condition\n\nVery good for its age: light toning, mild edge wear, typical binding holes from original compilation.\n✨ I photograph every page, so please review images closely and ask any questions.\n\n🖼 Optional Archival Framing\n\nAvailable for:\n\nF.S. Church “Great Expectations”\n\nA.B. Frost centerfold “Lost Their Way”\n\nLogging Camp full page\n\nMadre de Dios front page\nAll materials archival, acid-free, with UV-safe acrylic.\n\n\n📦 Shipping\n\nShips flat, securely packaged—never rolled.\n\n🏷 SEO Tags\n\nHarper’s Weekly 1887, Frederick Stuart Church Great Expectations, A.B. Frost illustration, Victorian Christmas art, antique newspaper, logging camp engraving, Niagara bridge construction, Madre de Dios engraving, 19th century illustration, anthropomorphic bear art, Gilded Age Christmas, collectible Harper’s Weekly.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264012316892,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/65c26277-il_fullxfull.7473126228_dwvy.jpg?v=1786496614"},{"product_id":"1881-ab-frost-football-centerfold-lincoln-monument-nyc-street-blockade-nov-5","title":"1881 AB Frost Football Centerfold, Lincoln Monument, NYC Street Blockade — Nov 5","description":"1881 AB Frost Football Centerfold, Lincoln Monument, NYC Street Blockade — Nov 5\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\nThis November 5, 1881 issue of Harper's Weekly is a collector's prize — delivering one of the finest 19th-century football centerfolds in existence by the beloved illustrator A.B. Frost, alongside a vivid six-scene document of New York City street chaos, the Lincoln Monument, and a richly illustrated journey through the Dutch countryside. For collectors of early football history, A.B. Frost illustration, Lincoln history, New York City history, and Gilded Age Americana, this is an exceptional and fully displayable issue.\n\n🏈 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — A.B. FROST: \"A GAME OF FOOT-BALL — A SCRUMMAGE AT THE CLOSE\"\nThe crown jewel of this issue — and one of the finest football illustrations in the entire 19th-century American illustrated press — is the double-page centerfold by A.B. Frost: \"A Game of Foot-Ball — A Scrummage at the Close.\" Frost — one of the most beloved and technically accomplished American illustrators of the Gilded Age, renowned for his warmth, humor, and extraordinary draftsmanship — brings the heat and chaos of a football scrummage to vivid life in this sweeping, action-packed centerfold.\nIn 1881 American football was still in its formative years — a hybrid of rugby and the emerging American game, played primarily by college teams and still evolving toward the sport we know today. The scrummage depicted here captures the raw physical intensity, the period uniforms, and the controlled chaos of early football with a documentary authenticity that makes this centerfold an irreplaceable primary source document of American football history. Described as one of the best football centerfolds of the 19th century to be had — fully displayable, historically significant, and deeply sought after by collectors of early football history, A.B. Frost art, and Victorian sporting illustration.\n\n🚦 FULL FRONT PAGE — \"THE BLOCKADE OF STREET TRAVEL IN NEW YORK\" — SIX SCENES\nThe full front page delivers six scenes of the chronic and maddening blockade of street travel in New York City — the gridlock, the horse-car congestion, the blocked intersections, and the general chaos of a city whose streets had been overwhelmed by the volume of traffic its explosive growth had generated. A vivid and sharply observed primary source document of New York City transportation history and the daily frustrations of Gilded Age urban life — a problem so familiar it feels entirely contemporary.\n\n🗽 \"THE LINCOLN MONUMENT\" — FOUR PRINTS\nFour prints documenting the Lincoln Monument — a significant piece of American commemorative art and presidential memorial history, capturing the ongoing national effort to honor the martyred 16th President in bronze and stone during the years of Garfield's own assassination and mourning. A prized piece for collectors of Lincoln history, presidential memorial history, and Victorian American sculpture.\n\n🌷 \"IN THE SOUTH OF HOLLAND\" — SIX SCENES\nA full page presenting six scenes of life and landscape in the south of Holland — windmills, canals, traditional Dutch dress, and the flat, luminous countryside that had captivated European artists for centuries. A richly observed and visually engaging piece of Victorian world travel illustration, capturing a corner of Europe beloved by artists and travellers alike.\n\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: Complete 16-page issue.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original woodblock printing from November 5, 1881 — not a reproduction.\nCondition Report: Presents well for its 144-year age. Natural toning to the newsprint consistent with age. The A.B. Frost football centerfold, the New York street blockade front page, the Lincoln Monument prints, and the Holland scenes are all clear and displayable.\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n\nHoused in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 144-year-old newsprint\nFlat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold\nFully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n\n🏷️ TAGS\n1881 Harpers Weekly, AB Frost Football Centerfold, Early Football History 1881, Game of Football Scrummage, Lincoln Monument 1881, New York Street Blockade Six Scenes, South of Holland Victorian, AB Frost Illustration, Early American Football Primary Source, Victorian Football Art, New York City Transportation History, Antique Newspaper 1881, 19th Century Americana, Gilded Age Football History, AB Frost Harper's Weekly","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264012677340,"sku":null,"price":88.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/8b2fdbd9-il_fullxfull.7926716599_6hkn.jpg?v=1786496618"},{"product_id":"1898-a-b-frost-snipe-shooting-puerto-rico-evacuation-new-york-city-nov-19","title":"1898 A.B. Frost Snipe Shooting, Puerto Rico Evacuation, New York City — Nov 19","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · November 19, 1898\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA collector's issue with three separately desirable features — a displayable A.B. Frost snipe shooting sporting print, the formal Spanish evacuation of Puerto Rico in five photographs, and a double-page centerfold of New York City's growth in five views. Strong content for sporting art collectors, Puerto Rican history enthusiasts, and New York City history collectors.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎨 A.B. FROST — \"SNIPE SHOOTING\"\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🐦 FULL PAGE — \"SNIPE SHOOTING\" — BY A.B. FROST\nA displayable full-page sporting illustration by A.B. Frost — snipe shooting, one of the great American upland bird hunting traditions and a subject Frost rendered with his characteristic combination of precision and warmth. Snipe shooting in the late 19th century was a serious and demanding sporting pursuit practiced in wet meadows and marsh edges throughout the East Coast, and Frost's illustration captures the quick-flushing, erratic-flying character of the bird that gave the English language the word \"sniper.\" Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) is widely regarded as the finest American sporting illustrator of the Gilded Age, and his hunting prints — rail shooting, quail shooting, duck shooting, and now snipe — are among the most actively collected of his output. Admitted posthumously to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1985, Frost brought genuine sporting knowledge and humorous humanity to his subjects. A vivid, atmospheric, and very frameable piece of American sporting art.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🇵🇷 THE EVACUATION OF PUERTO RICO\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n📸 FULL PAGE — \"THE EVACUATION OF PUERTO RICO — SCENES ATTENDING THE FORMAL SURRENDER\" — FIVE PHOTOGRAPHS\nFive photographs documenting the formal Spanish evacuation of Puerto Rico — one of the most historically significant events in Puerto Rican history. On October 18, 1898, the American flag was raised over San Juan and four centuries of Spanish rule in Puerto Rico formally ended. The Spanish evacuation — the ceremonies, the departing troops, the transfer of buildings and government — was a solemn and consequential moment for the island's 900,000 inhabitants. These five photographs are a primary photographic document of the end of Spanish Puerto Rico and the beginning of American Puerto Rico, capturing the human reality of sovereignty transfer at its most visible. A significant piece of Puerto Rican history for any serious collection.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🌆 NEW YORK CITY — THE GROWING METROPOLIS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌆 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"THE GROWTH OF THE METROPOLIS — TYPICAL VIEWS OF NEW YORK CITY\" — FIVE PHOTOGRAPHS\nA double-page centerfold of five photographs documenting the explosive growth of New York City — skyscrapers rising, streets teeming, the urban landscape transforming with a speed that astonished contemporaries. In 1898, New York had just consolidated its five boroughs into a single Greater New York, and the city was experiencing one of the most dramatic periods of growth and transformation in its history. These five views are a primary photographic document of the city at a pivotal moment of its development. A vivid and very frameable piece of New York City history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🐴 FULL FRONT PAGE — \"AT THE HORSE SHOW\"\nA full front-page illustration of the horse show — the annual National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden, one of the premier social and sporting events of the Gilded Age, drawing New York's finest families and their finest animals. A vivid piece of Gilded Age equestrian and social history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· November 19, 1898\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 24 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nAB Frost snipe shooting, Frost snipe hunting print, AB Frost sporting illustration, AB Frost bird hunting antique, snipe shooting Victorian antique, AB Frost Harper's Weekly, American sporting art Frost, AB Frost Hall of Fame, Gilded Age sporting print, bird hunting antique print, Puerto Rico evacuation 1898, Spanish evacuation Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico formal surrender, San Juan Puerto Rico 1898, Puerto Rico sovereignty transfer, Spanish rule end Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico five photographs, Puerto Rico primary document, New York City growth centerfold, New York metropolis 1898, typical views New York City, Greater New York 1898, New York skyscrapers 1898, New York City five photos, Gilded Age New York antique, horse show Madison Square Garden, National Horse Show 1898, Gilded Age equestrian, Harper's Weekly 1898, antique newspaper 1898, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, AB Frost collector, sporting art collector, Puerto Rico history collector, New York history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264017658076,"sku":null,"price":38.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/04d12b79-il_fullxfull.8328894711_7rxr.jpg?v=1786496672"},{"product_id":"1898-two-a-b-frost-bicycle-fall-rail-shooting-color-ivory-soap-ad-nov-12","title":"1898 Two A.B. Frost, Bicycle Fall \u0026 Rail Shooting, Color Ivory Soap Ad — Nov 12","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · November 12, 1898\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA collector's issue with three separately desirable features in one complete newspaper — a full front-page A.B. Frost bicycle illustration, a full-page A.B. Frost rail shooting sporting print, a full-page color Ivory Soap advertisement, and a double-page centerfold of American troops in the Philippines before and after the fall of Manila. Two Frost prints and a color ad in one issue is an unusual concentration of collectible content.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎨 A.B. FROST — TWO PRINTS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🚲 FULL FRONT PAGE — A.B. FROST: MAN FALLEN FROM BICYCLE\nA full front-page illustration by A.B. Frost of a man who has taken a tumble from his bicycle — a perfect subject for Frost's genius for capturing the comedy of human mishap with warmth and precision. The bicycle craze of the 1890s was one of the great social phenomena of the Gilded Age — bicycle clubs, cycling fashions, and heated debates about women riding bicycles had dominated the decade — and Frost's front-page bicycle comedy captures that moment with his characteristic wit. Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) joined Harper \u0026amp; Brothers in 1876 and became one of the great American illustrators of the era, admitted posthumously to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1985. His front-page placement in this issue is a mark of his stature at the publication. An original Frost illustration in a complete original issue.\n\n🦅 FULL PAGE — A.B. FROST: \"RAIL SHOOTING\" — SHOOTING A BIRD FROM A BOAT\nA displayable full-page sporting illustration by A.B. Frost — \"Rail Shooting,\" showing a hunter shooting a rail bird from a small boat moving through the marsh. Rail shooting was one of the most distinctive American sporting traditions, practiced in the tidal marshes of the Atlantic coast by gunners who stood in flat-bottomed boats while pushers poled them through the reed beds, flushing the secretive rails into flight. Frost was widely regarded as the finest American sporting illustrator of his era, and his hunting and shooting prints are among the most actively collected of his output. A vivid, atmospheric, and very frameable piece of American sporting art.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🧼 FULL-PAGE COLOR IVORY SOAP ADVERTISEMENT\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🧼 FULL PAGE COLOR — IVORY SOAP ADVERTISEMENT\nA full-page color advertisement for Ivory Soap — one of America's most iconic consumer brands, launched by Procter \u0026amp; Gamble in 1879 and famous for its \"99 and 44\/100 percent pure\" slogan. Full-page color advertisements are among the most sought-after features in antique illustrated newspapers — vivid, displayable, and a window into the birth of modern American consumer culture. Framing a Victorian-era Ivory Soap color ad gives any room an instant piece of authentic Gilded Age Americana, and advertising ephemera collectors specifically seek these out.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🇵🇭 THE PHILIPPINES\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌏 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"WITH OUR TROOPS IN THE PHILIPPINES — BEFORE AND AFTER THE FALL OF MANILA\"\nA double-page centerfold comparing conditions before and after the American capture of Manila — a comprehensive primary document of the Philippine campaign as American forces were consolidating their hold on the islands. Published as tensions with Emilio Aguinaldo's Filipino independence forces were mounting toward the Philippine-American War that would break out in February 1899. A significant piece of American Pacific imperial history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🇨🇺 HALF PAGE — \"IN AND ABOUT HAVANA\"\nA half-page illustration of Havana, Cuba — now under American military occupation as Spain completed its withdrawal. A significant piece of Cuban history at the moment of its transformation.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· November 12, 1898\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 24 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nAB Frost bicycle fall illustration, AB Frost bicycle front page, Frost bicycle 1890s humor, AB Frost Harper's Weekly 1898, bicycle craze Victorian antique, 1890s bicycle illustration, Gilded Age bicycle humor, AB Frost rail shooting, Frost rail shooting marsh, rail bird shooting antique, AB Frost sporting print, AB Frost hunting illustration, rail shooting boat antique, American sporting art Frost, marsh bird shooting Victorian, Ivory Soap color advertisement antique, Ivory Soap Victorian ad, Procter Gamble antique ad, 99 44 100 pure Ivory Soap, color ad antique newspaper, Victorian soap advertising ephemera, Philippines troops centerfold, Fall of Manila before after, Philippines American troops 1898, Manila Philippines centerfold, Aguinaldo Philippines 1898, Havana Cuba American occupation, Harper's Weekly 1898, antique newspaper 1898, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, AB Frost collector, sporting art collector, advertising ephemera collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264018411740,"sku":null,"price":38.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/8c3885a6-il_fullxfull.8328931959_7ue0.jpg?v=1786496682"},{"product_id":"1898-a-b-frost-golf-tournament-day-the-lost-ball-mckinley-at-omaha-oct-29","title":"1898 A.B. Frost Golf \"Tournament Day — The Lost Ball,\" McKinley at Omaha — Oct 29","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · October 29, 1898\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA collector's issue combining one of A.B. Frost's most sought-after golf illustrations with President McKinley's visit to the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, American regulars occupying Puerto Rico's Mayagüez, a prisoner exchange, and Illinois labor unrest. Two of the era's most collectable subjects — early American golf and Spanish-American War — appear together in a single complete issue that is actively sought by collectors on both fronts.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⛳ A.B. FROST — \"TOURNAMENT DAY — THE LOST BALL\"\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⛳ FULL PAGE — \"TOURNAMENT DAY — THE LOST BALL\" — BY A.B. FROST\nA full-page golf illustration by A.B. Frost — one of the most actively collected of all his golf works, showing golfers and their caddy searching through the grass for a lost ball during tournament play. This exact print — \"GOLF TOURNAMENT DAY THE LOST BALL BY A. B. FROST 1898\" — is actively sold as a collectible on the secondary market, confirming its desirability among golf art collectors. Frost was himself a regular golfer at the Morristown County Golf Club in New Jersey and brought unmatched authenticity and humor to his golf illustrations, which capture the sport's peculiar blend of aspiration and frustration better than any other artist of the era.\n\nArthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) joined Harper \u0026amp; Brothers in 1876 and worked alongside Frederic Remington, Howard Pyle, and E.W. Kemble as one of the great illustrators of the Gilded Age. He was admitted posthumously to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1985 and is best known today for his Uncle Remus illustrations and his sporting prints — of which his golf work is among the most actively collected. This is the third Frost golf illustration in Harper's Weekly within six weeks — following \"I've Played Thirteen!\" on September 17 — reflecting the explosive growth of golf in late 1890s America.\n\nThis original full-page print from the complete issue is the actual publication source. An original print — not a reproduction — of a work that is actively sold at secondary market as a collectible.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎖️ PRESIDENT McKINLEY AT THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏛️ FULL PAGE — \"PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S VISIT TO THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION AT OMAHA, OCTOBER 12, 1898\"\nA full-page illustration of President William McKinley's visit to the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha — one of the most significant political events of the fair's run. McKinley arrived just after the war's conclusion, and his visit to Omaha became a victory lap for his administration's prosecution of the war and acquisition of the new territories. A significant piece of presidential history and World's Fair history.\n\n🌎 FULL PAGE — \"THE PRESIDENT'S WESTERN TRIP — SCENES ALONG THE ROUTE\"\nA full page of scenes from McKinley's western railroad journey to Omaha — a vivid piece of turn-of-the-century presidential travel and public life.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🇵🇷 PUERTO RICO — MAYAGÜEZ\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🪖 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"SCHWAN'S REGULARS ON THE PLAZA AT MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO\"\nA double-page centerfold of American regular Army troops — Schwan's brigade — assembled on the plaza at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico's third-largest city on the west coast of the island. General Theodore Schwan had led the western column of Miles's four-pronged Puerto Rico invasion, capturing Mayagüez on August 11 in one of the sharpest engagements of the campaign. This centerfold captures American troops occupying the city's central plaza — a primary document of American military occupation of Puerto Rico in its first weeks, and a significant piece of Puerto Rican history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏛️ FULL FRONT PAGE — \"IN A PUERTO RICAN PRISON\"\nA full front-page illustration of a Puerto Rican prison — a vivid and unusual piece of Puerto Rican social and institutional history under the first weeks of American administration.\n\n🤝 FULL PAGE — \"AN EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS\"\nA full-page illustration of a prisoner exchange — a significant and humanitarian piece of the war's formal conclusion, as American and Spanish forces exchanged POWs in the aftermath of the ceasefire.\n\n⚒️ HALF PAGE — \"THE SCENE OF THE ILLINOIS LABOR TROUBLES\"\nA half-page illustration of the Illinois labor troubles — a significant piece of Gilded Age labor history and Midwest industrial conflict, reflecting the economic tensions that persisted even amid the patriotic fervor of the war.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· October 29, 1898\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 24 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 128-year-old newsprint\n• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nAB Frost Tournament Day Lost Ball, AB Frost golf print 1898, Frost Lost Ball golf antique, tournament day lost ball golf, AB Frost golf Harper's Weekly, AB Frost golf collectible, early American golf illustration, Victorian golf humor antique, golf lost ball caddy print, Gilded Age golf art Frost, AB Frost Society Illustrators, McKinley Trans-Mississippi Exposition, McKinley Omaha visit 1898, President McKinley western trip, Trans-Mississippi Exposition visit, McKinley Spanish American War, Schwan Regulars Mayaguez, Mayaguez Puerto Rico centerfold, American regulars Puerto Rico, Schwan brigade Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico occupation Mayaguez, prisoner exchange Spanish American, Illinois labor troubles 1898, Gilded Age labor history, Puerto Rican prison 1898, Harper's Weekly 1898, antique newspaper 1898, Spanish American War newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, golf history collector, AB Frost collector, presidential history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264018444508,"sku":null,"price":84.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/90d97965-il_fullxfull.8264512844_js8n.jpg?v=1786496682"},{"product_id":"1898-a-b-frost-golf-centerfold-ive-played-thirteen-dewey-merritt-queen-wilhelmina-sep-17","title":"1898 A.B. Frost Golf Centerfold \"I've Played Thirteen,\" Dewey \u0026 Merritt, Queen Wilhelmina — Sep 17","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 17, 1898\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA collector's issue of exceptional range — a celebrated A.B. Frost golf double-page centerfold whose original gouache sold at auction in 2023; Admiral Dewey and General Merritt on the USS Olympia front page; the coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland; Colorado honoring its sick soldiers; Camp Wikoff; and a transport homecoming from Cuba. One of the finest and most varied issues of the entire 1898 run — spanning golf history, naval history, and European royal history in a single complete newspaper.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⛳ A.B. FROST — \"I'VE PLAYED THIRTEEN!\" — GOLF CENTERFOLD\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⛳ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"I'VE PLAYED THIRTEEN!\" — BY A.B. FROST\nThe showpiece of the issue and one of the most celebrated golf illustrations in American art history — a double-page centerfold by Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), one of the most beloved American illustrators of the Gilded Age. Frost was himself a regular golfer at the Morristown County Golf Club in New Jersey, and his humorous golf illustrations perfectly captured the sport's peculiar combination of aspiration, frustration, and absurdity that was captivating middle-class America in the 1890s.\n\nThe original gouache painting for this centerfold — signed and dated by Frost, bearing the stamp \"Copyright 1898 Harper \u0026amp; Brothers\" — was sold at Neue Auctions on August 27, 2023, confirming this as one of the artist's most documented and collectible golf works. The Old Print Shop of New York lists this print as a sought-after collectible. A.B. Frost is best known today for his sporting illustrations, his Uncle Remus illustrations for Joel Chandler Harris, and his studies under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His golf work is among the most actively collected of his output.\n\nThis original double-page centerfold from the complete issue is a primary document of Frost's golf art — the actual publication for which the celebrated gouache was created. An original print — not a reproduction — of a work whose original sold at major auction.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⚓ DEWEY \u0026amp; MERRITT ON THE OLYMPIA\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🚢 FULL FRONT PAGE — \"OUR ARMY AND NAVY IN THE PHILIPPINES — ADMIRAL DEWEY AND GENERAL MERRITT ON THE FLAGSHIP 'OLYMPIA'\"\nA dramatic full front-page illustration of Admiral George Dewey — hero of Manila Bay and the most celebrated naval officer in America — alongside General Wesley Merritt on the deck of USS Olympia, Dewey's legendary flagship. Olympia had led the American squadron to its stunning one-sided victory at Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, destroying the entire Spanish Pacific fleet without a single American killed. Merritt commanded the Army forces that captured Manila on August 13. This front page captures the two commanders of America's Pacific victory at the pinnacle of their fame. USS Olympia survives today as a museum ship in Philadelphia — the oldest steel warship afloat in the world. A significant piece of American naval and military history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n👑 QUEEN WILHELMINA OF HOLLAND\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n👑 TWO-THIRDS PAGE PORTRAIT — \"WILHELMINA, QUEEN OF HOLLAND, IN HER INAUGURATION ROBES\"\nA portrait of the newly crowned Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands — who had ascended to the throne on September 6, 1898, at age 18, following the death of her father King William III. Wilhelmina would reign for fifty years, lead her government in exile during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, and become one of the longest-reigning monarchs in Dutch history. This portrait, published just eleven days after her coronation, is a primary document of one of European history's most consequential reigns at its very beginning.\n\n🎭 FULL PAGE — \"CHARACTERS IN THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT AT THE ENTHRONING OF QUEEN WILHELMINA\"\nA full-page illustration of the historical pageant that accompanied Wilhelmina's coronation — a spectacular piece of Dutch royal ceremonial history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏕️ TWO FULL PAGES — \"SCENES AT CAMP WIKOFF\"\nTwo full pages of illustrations of Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point — the quarantine camp where returning soldiers from Cuba arrived sick and overwhelmed its medical facilities.\n\n🚢 FULL PAGE — \"ON A HOMEWARD-BOUND TRANSPORT FROM CUBA\"\nA full-page illustration of American soldiers aboard a transport ship returning from Cuba — a vivid and human piece of the war's human aftermath.\n\n🏔️ FULL PAGE — \"COLORADO REMEMBERS THE SICK SOLDIERS\"\nA full-page illustration of Colorado's tribute to its soldiers who fell sick during the Cuban campaign — a significant piece of state-level homefront history and the human cost of the war.\n\n📸 FULL PAGE — \"SANTIAGO\"\nA full page of photographs of Santiago — continuing the comprehensive photographic record of the war's defining theater.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· September 17, 1898\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 24 pages\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 128-year-old newsprint\n• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA B Frost golf centerfold, AB Frost I've Played Thirteen, Frost golf Harper's Weekly, AB Frost golf illustration 1898, Frost golf antique print, AB Frost original Harper's, AB Frost gouache golf, Neue Auctions Frost golf, Old Print Shop Frost golf, Gilded Age golf illustration, Victorian golf humor print, early American golf art, golf antique centerfold, golf collectible 1898, Admiral Dewey USS Olympia, Dewey Merritt Philippines, USS Olympia flagship, Manila Bay hero Dewey, Philippine campaign commanders, Dewey Philippines 1898, Queen Wilhelmina coronation, Wilhelmina Holland 1898, Dutch queen inauguration, Netherlands queen 1898, Wilhelmina portrait antique, Camp Wikoff illustrations, Cuba transport homecoming, Colorado soldiers tribute, Harper's Weekly 1898, antique newspaper 1898, Spanish American War newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, golf history collector, AB Frost collector, Dewey collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264018641116,"sku":null,"price":65.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/f00846be-il_fullxfull.8259983348_nle2.jpg?v=1786496683"},{"product_id":"1877-a-b-frost-hunting-santa-claus-worldwide-nast-new-year-jan-6","title":"1877 A.B. Frost Hunting, Santa Claus Worldwide, Nast, New Year — Jan 6","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · January 6, 1877\nComplete Issue + Supplement · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA landmark New Year's issue brimming with major illustrative talent — A.B. Frost's celebrated hunting vignettes, two Thomas Nast cartoons, a rare four-image Santa Claus worldwide supplement page, a dramatic horse-sled centerfold, and the 1876 Centennial toy exhibit. One of the strongest issues of the entire 1877 run across multiple collecting categories.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎆 FULL FRONT PAGE — \"THE NEW YEAR\"\nA full front-page montage of prints celebrating the New Year — the kind of sweeping, multi-scene seasonal illustration that made Harper's Weekly the nation's most treasured visual record of American life and its turning seasons.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎨 A.B. FROST\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🦆 FULL PAGE — A.B. FROST: \"FALL SPORTING\" — SIX HUNTING VIGNETTES\nA full page of six hunting vignettes by Arthur Burdett Frost — one of the most beloved American illustrators of the 19th century and the defining visual chronicler of American rural and sporting life. Frost's hunting and fishing scenes are among the most collected American illustrations of the era, treasured for their humor, authenticity, and affectionate observation of country life. He would go on to illustrate the Uncle Remus stories for Joel Chandler Harris and become a founding figure of American sporting art. This is an original Harper's Weekly print of his work, not a reproduction.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✏️ THOMAS NAST\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌰 FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST: \"NO — NO MORE CHESTNUTS FOR ME\"\nA full-page Nast political cartoon — a pointed New Year's commentary on the exhausted political controversies of 1876, Nast declining to rehash the \"chestnuts\" of the Hayes-Tilden dispute as the new year begins.\n\n🔄 FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST: \"HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF\"\nA second full-page Nast cartoon — one of his favorite themes, the cyclical nature of political corruption and human folly rendered in his characteristic sharp style.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🐓 FULL PAGE — \"AN AMERICAN FARM YARD — A FROSTY MORNING\"\nA full-page winter farm scene — the quiet beauty of an American farmyard on a cold morning, capturing the rural life that defined most Americans' experience in the Gilded Age.\n\n🎪 FULL PAGE — \"THE CHILDREN'S CORNER AT THE CENTENNIAL — EXHIBITION OF DOLLS AND TOYS\"\nA full-page illustration of the children's toy and doll exhibit at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition — America's great world's fair celebrating the nation's 100th birthday. A delightful piece of American toy history and Centennial history, showing the extraordinary variety of dolls and playthings on display for the nation's children.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎅 THE SUPPLEMENT\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌍 FULL PAGE — \"SANTA CLAUS ROUND THE WORLD\"\nA full-page supplement illustration featuring four images of Santa Claus as depicted in different cultures around the world — a fascinating document of how the Santa Claus tradition was understood internationally in 1877, just decades after Thomas Nast himself had done so much to shape the modern American image of Santa. A rare and collectible piece of Christmas history.\n\n🐎 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"A RACE FOR LIFE\"\nA dramatic double-page supplement centerfold of a horse-drawn sled in full flight — a thrilling winter chase scene spanning the full open breadth of the newspaper. Vivid, dynamic, and very frameable.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· January 6, 1877\nCity ··············· New York\nItem Number ········ 174102\nPages ·············· Complete · 20 pages + Supplement\nFormat ············· Illustrated folio newspaper\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 148-year-old newsprint\n• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold and supplement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nAB Frost hunting print, A.B. 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