{"title":"Antique Baseball Newspapers \u0026 Prints","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal antique newspapers featuring early American baseball — one of the most popular collecting categories in sports history. Browse authentic Victorian-era issues of Harper's Weekly and other illustrated newspapers documenting the birth of professional baseball, early team portraits, ballpark scenes, and the sport's greatest 19th-century moments. Perfect for baseball historians, sports memorabilia collectors, and fans of America's pastime.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1891-edison-in-his-lab-yale-princeton-baseball-teams-chicago-tunnel-jun-13","title":"1891 Edison in His Lab, Yale \u0026 Princeton Baseball Teams, Chicago Tunnel — Jun 13","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · June 13, 1891\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA collector's issue combining three separately desirable subjects — Thomas Edison standing beside his phonograph in a magnificent double-page centerfold, Yale and Princeton baseball teams in back-to-back half-page illustrations, and the proposed Chicago boulevard tunnel. One of the most versatile and collectible issues of the 1891 run — science, sport, and infrastructure all in one complete newspaper.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n💡 THOMAS EDISON — IN HIS LABORATORY\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n💡 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"THOMAS A. EDISON IN HIS LABORATORY\" — FULL-FIGURE ILLUSTRATION BESIDE HIS PHONOGRAPH\nThe showpiece of the issue — a full-figure double-page centerfold of Thomas Alva Edison standing in his legendary Menlo Park laboratory beside his phonograph, one of his most celebrated inventions. In 1891 Edison was at the absolute peak of his creative powers and public fame — he had invented the phonograph in 1877, the incandescent light bulb in 1879, and was in 1891 working on the motion picture camera (the Kinetoscope, patented that same year) and improving his electrical power distribution systems. The West Orange, New Jersey laboratory complex he had built in 1887 was the world's first industrial research laboratory — the template for every corporate R\u0026amp;D department that followed. Edison was without question the most famous inventor in the world, and a full-figure centerfold portrait beside his phonograph captures the man and his most beloved invention in a vivid and very frameable composition. A significant and highly collectible piece of American invention, technology, and cultural history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⚾ YALE \u0026amp; PRINCETON BASEBALL\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⚾ HALF PAGE — \"YALE'S BASEBALL NINE\"\nA half-page illustration of Yale University's baseball team — the Bulldogs, one of the most storied programs in college baseball history. Yale's baseball program dates to 1865, making it one of the oldest in the country, and in the 1880s and 1890s the Ivy League rivalry between Yale and Harvard defined college baseball at its most prestigious. A significant piece of college baseball and Yale athletic history.\n\n⚾ HALF PAGE — \"PRINCETON'S BASEBALL NINE\"\nA half-page illustration of Princeton University's baseball team — the Tigers, Yale's great rival in the intercollegiate diamond. Together the Yale and Princeton baseball nines in the same issue form a matched pair of Ivy League college baseball history from the sport's golden amateur era — exceptionally rare in this format and highly collectible for baseball history enthusiasts and Ivy League sports collectors.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🚇 THE CHICAGO BOULEVARD TUNNEL\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🚇 FULL FRONT PAGE — \"PROPOSED BOULEVARD TUNNEL, CHICAGO\"\nA full front-page illustration of the proposed boulevard tunnel for Chicago — a significant piece of Chicago urban planning and transportation history, one of the infrastructure projects that were transforming the city in the run-up to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.\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 ··············· June 13, 1891\nCity ··············· New York\nFormat ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 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\nThomas Edison laboratory centerfold, Edison phonograph antique, Edison laboratory portrait, Thomas Edison full figure, Edison inventor antique, Edison phonograph centerfold, Edison West Orange antique, Edison Menlo Park antique, Edison Kinetoscope antique, inventor phonograph antique, Yale baseball nine 1891, Yale Bulldogs baseball antique, Yale college baseball antique, Princeton baseball nine 1891, Princeton Tigers baseball antique, Ivy League baseball antique, college baseball 1891 antique, Yale Princeton baseball rivalry, Ivy League sports antique, college baseball history, Chicago boulevard tunnel, Chicago tunnel antique, Chicago infrastructure antique, Harper's Weekly 1891, antique newspaper 1891, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Edison collector, baseball history collector, Yale Princeton collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264011432156,"sku":null,"price":88.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/52238525-il_fullxfull.8369004314_bg6g.jpg?v=1786496602"},{"product_id":"1887-early-football-and-baseball-harper-s-weekly-nov-26-remington-football-cover-san-francisco-baseball-wild-hog-hunt-naval-battle-scen","title":"1887 Early Football and Baseball Harper’s Weekly Nov 26 – Remington Football Cover, San Francisco Baseball, Wild Hog Hunt, Naval Battle Scen","description":"Harper’s Weekly Nov 26 1887 – Remington Football Cover, San Francisco Baseball, Wild Hog Hunt, Naval Battle Scenes\n\n\n---\n\nDescription\n\nThis original Harper’s Weekly issue dated November 26, 1887 features one of the most desirable sports illustrations of the 19th century: Frederic Remington’s full front-page engraving of early college football. The issue also includes one of the earliest illustrated reports of baseball on the West Coast, spectacular naval exercises, hunting scenes, architectural interiors, and the holiday book-list supplement.\n\nA complete issue with strong displays, perfect for collectors of sports history, Remington art, Americana, and Victorian illustration.\n\n\n---\n\n⭐ Key Highlights \u0026amp; Illustrations\n\n• Full Front Page – Frederic Remington\n\n“College Players at Foot-Ball — A Tackle and Ball-Down.”\nA powerful early depiction of American football by the legendary Remington. Highly collectible and ideal for framing.\n\n\n---\n\n• Inside Feature – The College Game of Football\n\nAn in-depth article accompanying the cover, explaining rules, playing style, early sporting culture, and intercollegiate competition in the 1880s.\n\n\n---\n\n• Early West Coast Baseball\n\n“Base-Ball in San Francisco” — one of the earliest illustrated baseball reports from California.\nIncludes the engraving:\n“A Base-Ball Game on the Haight Street Grounds, San Francisco.”\n\nFantastic for baseball historians and San Francisco collectors.\n\n\n---\n\n• Double-Page Centerfold\n\n“The Sham Naval Attack and Defense of Newport.”\nA dramatic, multi-scene panoramic layout featuring:\n\nTorpedo boats\n\nNaval gunfire\n\nHarbor defenses\n\nFleet maneuvers\n\n\nA standout spread with huge display appeal.\n\n\n---\n\n• Full Page – “Hunting Wild Hogs in Arkansas”\n\nHighly detailed frontier-style engraving of hunters, animals, and dense Southern wilderness.\n\n\n---\n\n• Architectural and Urban Interest\n\n“The Lawyers’ Down-Town Club in the Equitable Building, New York City” — half-page engraving of the elite club interior.\n\nMultiple engravings in the supplement showing building interiors, book illustrations, and decorative designs.\n\n\n\n---\n\n⭐ Supplement Included (Harper \u0026amp; Brothers Holiday Books, 1887)\n\nYour issue features the full holiday book-list supplement, which includes:\n\nIllustrated book covers\n\nLiterary portraits\n\nDecorative Victorian graphic work\n\nEngravings of book-themed scenes\n\n\nCollectors value the supplements highly, especially when intact.\n\n\n---\n\n📜 Condition\n\nVery good for a 137-year-old newspaper:\n\nLight toning\n\nClean pages with minimal blemishes\n\nTight fold at center\n\nMinor edge wear and typical binding holes from original stitching\n\nExcellent impression quality on engravings\n\nSupplements present and in strong condition\n\n\nNo major tears, losses, or defects. A high-quality example.\n\n\n---\n\n📏 Size\n\nApprox. 16 x 11 inches (standard Harper’s Weekly folio).\n\n\n---\n\n🖼️ Archival Framing Available\n\nI offer custom, museum-quality framing for any page or spread, including:\n\nThe Remington football cover (most requested)\n\nSan Francisco baseball plate\n\nWild hog hunt\n\nNaval centerfold\n\nArchitectural interiors or supplement engravings\n\n\nOptions include:\n\nAcid-free matting\n\nUV-protective acrylic\n\nBlack, walnut, gold, or custom frames\n\nFloat mounting for oversized spreads\n\n\nMessage me for a quote.\n\n\n---\n\n📦 Shipping\n\nShips FLAT, never rolled:\n\nArchival backing\n\nProtective sleeve\n\nRigid mailer\n\nMoisture-resistant outer packaging\n\n\nYour antique will arrive safely and ready for framing or collecting.\n\n\n---\n\n🎁 Perfect For\n\nSports history collectors\nFrederic Remington enthusiasts\nBaseball and football historians\nSan Francisco memorabilia collectors\nNaval history collectors\nVictorian Americana\nHoliday gift framing\nHarper’s Weekly completists\n\n\n---","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264013725916,"sku":null,"price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/ab82d083-il_fullxfull.7509782311_o80b.jpg?v=1786496633"},{"product_id":"1881-princeton-baseball-nine-nast-double-coaching-club-cornell-crew-may-14","title":"1881 Princeton Baseball Nine, Nast Double, Coaching Club, Cornell Crew — May 14","description":"1881 Princeton Baseball Nine, Nast Double, Coaching Club, Cornell Crew — May 14\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\nThis May 14, 1881 issue of Harper's Weekly is a collector's dream combining early college baseball history, two Thomas Nast political cartoons, the glamour of the Gilded Age Coaching Club, and the Cornell crew heading to England — all in sixteen beautifully preserved pages. The Princeton baseball illustration alone makes this one of the most sought-after sports history issues in the 1881 Harper's Weekly run. For collectors of early baseball history, Thomas Nast, Gilded Age sporting culture, and 19th-century Americana, this issue is exceptional.\n\n⚾ \"THE PRINCETON COLLEGE BASE-BALL NINE\" — EARLY BASEBALL PRIMARY SOURCE\nThe most significant illustration in this issue — and one of the finest early college baseball images in the entire Harper's Weekly run — is the half-page print of \"The Princeton College Base-Ball Nine,\" showing the full team in uniform, posed with their bats, ball, and two catcher's masks, accompanied by a related article \"The Princeton Nine.\"\nThis is a primary source document of extraordinary importance for collectors of early baseball history and college sports history. Princeton was one of the pioneering institutions of American college baseball, and this 1881 image — showing the team in their period uniforms with the equipment of the era — is among the earliest and finest illustrated records of an Ivy League baseball program in the American press. The inclusion of the two catcher's masks is a particularly notable detail, as the catcher's mask had only been introduced in 1876 and remained a novelty and point of fascination for the general public. A fully displayable piece of exceptional rarity and historical significance for baseball historians, Princeton alumni and collectors, and early sports history enthusiasts.\n\n🎨 FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST: \"IS THERE TO BE A POWER BEHIND THE THRONE?\"\nThe full front page delivers a Thomas Nast political cartoon — \"Is There To Be A Power Behind The Throne?\" — a pointed commentary on the behind-the-scenes political power struggles of the early Garfield administration, rendered with Nast's characteristic allegorical precision. Published just weeks before Garfield's assassination, this cartoon carries the weight of historical hindsight — a document of the political tensions that defined his tragically brief presidency.\n\n🦅 THOMAS NAST — \"HOW THEY EXPECT TO GET ON A SOUND FOOTING\"\nThe back page delivers a second Thomas Nast political cartoon featuring Uncle Sam — \"How They Expect to Get on a Sound Footing\" — making this one of the prized double-Nast issues of the 1881 run. Two complete Nast illustrations substantially elevate the collectible value for Nast enthusiasts and students of Gilded Age political art.\n\n🐎 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"THE COACHING CLUB\"\nThe visual centerpiece of the issue is a sweeping double-page centerfold of \"The Coaching Club\" — one of the most fashionable and exclusive sporting institutions of Gilded Age New York, whose members drove four-in-hand coaches through Central Park and along the city's finest roads in the grand English tradition. The Coaching Club attracted the wealthiest and most socially prominent sportsmen of the era — the Vanderbilts, Belmonts, and their circle — and its annual parade was one of the great spectacles of the New York social calendar. A fully displayable centerfold of great appeal to collectors of Gilded Age sporting culture, carriage history, and New York social history.\n\n🚣 \"THE CORNELL CREW FOR ENGLAND\"\nA print showing four members of the Cornell University crew preparing for their transatlantic journey to compete in England — a vivid document of the era's exciting international collegiate athletic competition and the growing prestige of American college rowing on the world stage.\n\n🏔️ \"UP THE MORNE BRABANT, ISLAND OF MAURITIUS\"\nAn illustration of the dramatic volcanic peak of Morne Brabant on the island of Mauritius — a striking piece of Victorian world travel illustration capturing one of the Indian Ocean's most iconic landscapes.\n\n🖼️ ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS \u0026amp; PORTRAITS\n\n\"In the Toils of the Telegraph — To This Complexion We May Come At Last\" — a comic illustration on the growing tyranny of telegraph communication in modern life, with sharp contemporary resonance\n\"John Presents the Monthly Gas Tax\" — a comic domestic genre scene\n\"The Late James T. Fields\" — portrait of the celebrated Boston publisher and editor of The Atlantic Monthly, one of the most influential literary figures of the 19th century\n\"Sir Stafford Northcote\" — portrait of the prominent British Conservative statesman\n\"The Late Emile de Girardin\" — portrait of the pioneering French newspaper publisher and political figure\n\n\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: Complete 16-page issue.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original woodblock printing from May 14, 1881 — not a reproduction.\nCondition Report: Presents well for its 144-year age. Natural toning to the newsprint consistent with age. The Princeton baseball team illustration, both Nast cartoons, the Coaching Club centerfold, and the Cornell crew print 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, Princeton Baseball Nine 1881, Early College Baseball History, Princeton University Baseball, Thomas Nast Power Behind Throne, Thomas Nast Uncle Sam Sound Footing, Coaching Club Centerfold, Cornell Crew England 1881, Catcher's Mask Baseball 1881, Gilded Age Baseball Primary Source, Ivy League Baseball History, Antique Newspaper 1881, 19th Century Americana, Gilded Age Coaching Club, Victorian Collegiate Sports History Sonnet 4.6","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264015397084,"sku":null,"price":55.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/9d0b06ec-il_fullxfull.7856926710_i4n8.jpg?v=1786496647"},{"product_id":"1869-turf-field-and-farm-jerome-park-races-guelph-canada-chess-baseball-oct-29","title":"1869 Turf Field and Farm — Jerome Park Races, Guelph Canada, Chess, Baseball, Oct 29","description":"1869 Turf Field and Farm — Jerome Park Races, Guelph Canada, Chess, Baseball, Oct 29\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\nThis October 29, 1869 issue of The Turf, Field and Farm is one of the most content-rich racing issues of this scarce Gilded Age sporting weekly. Anchored by extensive day-by-day coverage of the prestigious Jerome Park meeting — one of the premier American racing venues of the era — alongside Canadian turf coverage, English Newmarket results, Colorado and Texas racing dispatches, a major editorial on fraud in sport, chess and draughts columns, and baseball box scores, this issue is a comprehensive snapshot of American and international sporting life at its Gilded Age peak. For collectors of thoroughbred racing history, Victorian chess ephemera, early baseball, and 19th-century Americana, this issue rewards on every page.\n\n🏇 JEROME PARK — DAY-BY-DAY RACE MEETING COVERAGE\nThe heart of this issue is the extraordinarily detailed coverage of the Jerome Park fall meeting — one of the most prestigious racing venues in America, established by Leonard Jerome (grandfather of Winston Churchill) just outside New York City. Multiple days of racing are covered with full race summaries including horse names, jockeys, weights, distances, times, and finishing positions across every race. The narrative coverage is vivid and immersive, capturing the atmosphere of the grandstand and the drama of the track with the kind of firsthand reporting that makes this a primary source document for thoroughbred racing historians.\nHighlights include \"The Extra Day at Jerome Park\" — a special additional race day featuring the celebrated mare Lady Williams — with a richly written account of the day's proceedings, the crowds, the weather, the horses, and the results that delivered one of the meet's most memorable finishes.\n\n⚠️ \"THE SHARPERS OF THE TURF\"\nA major editorial — \"The Sharpers of the Turf\" — delivers a hard-hitting investigation into fraud, corruption, and manipulation in American racing. One of the most substantive pieces of turf journalism published in the paper's run, this editorial is a valuable primary source for anyone studying the history of racing integrity, gambling, and the dark side of Gilded Age sport.\n\n⚖️ \"THE MORALITY OF FIELD SPORTS\"\nA thoughtful philosophical editorial exploring the ethics and social value of field sports — a fascinating document of Victorian sporting values and the cultural debates surrounding hunting, racing, and athletic competition in 19th-century America.\n\n🇨🇦 THE TURF IN CANADA — THE GUELPH RACES\nComprehensive coverage of the Guelph races in Ontario, Canada — including full race summaries, horse names, times, and results — making this a valuable document of early Canadian thoroughbred racing history.\n\n🇬🇧 NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING\nEnglish turf coverage from Newmarket's prestigious Second October Meeting — transatlantic racing news keeping American readers current with the world's most celebrated racing circuit.\n\n🌵 TROTTING IN COLORADO \u0026amp; THE TURF IN TEXAS\nDispatches from the American West document the spread of organized racing and trotting to Colorado and Texas — rare early records of frontier sporting culture that rarely received coverage in the Eastern press.\n\n⚾ BASEBALL\nBaseball box scores continue in this October issue, capturing the very end of the 1869 season — one of the most pivotal years in the history of the game as professional baseball took its first organized steps.\n\n♟️ CHESS \u0026amp; DRAUGHTS\nMackenzie's Chess Chronicle delivers multiple annotated board diagrams. The Game of Draughts column edited by A.J. Donaldson provides printed board positions — a visually striking and collectible element for chess and checkers historians.\n\n🎭 NEW YORK AMUSEMENTS\nThe Amusements section covers the full fall Manhattan entertainment calendar including Grand Opera House, Booth's Theatre, Niblo's Garden, and Charles O'Malley — a document of Gilded Age New York cultural life at its autumn peak.\n\n🌊 AQUATICS\nAn aquatics column documents competitive rowing and water sports — a reminder of the era's rich sporting diversity beyond the turf.\n\n🗞️ PERIOD ADVERTISEMENTS — A TIME CAPSULE IN THEMSELVES\n\nTiffany \u0026amp; Co. — watches for timing races\nUnited States Watch Company, Giles Wales \u0026amp; Co. — 13 Maiden Lane\nDunscomb — pleasure and trotting harness\nDevlin \u0026amp; Co. — business suits, winter overcoats, fall overcoats, 430 \u0026amp; 446 Broadway\nR.M. Stivers — first class carriages\nJ.T. Smith — carriage maker, 101 \u0026amp; 103 West 45th Street\nCity Auction Mart — horses, carriages, harnesses, S.W. corner Broadway \u0026amp; 19th Street\nHoover, Calhoun \u0026amp; Co. — saddlery \u0026amp; harness, 365 Broadway\nJ. Riick — harness, saddles, blankets, whips\nHydraulic Clothes Washer — first premium\nMammoth Billiard Establishment — Phélan \u0026amp; Collender, 34 tables\nMaryland Jockey Club — Pimlico\nInstitute Driving Park — First Annual Fall Meeting\nMemphis Race\nChicago Jockey Club\nInaugural Meeting Nortic Park Association Williamsport\nHenry Ward Beecher's Sermons in Plymouth Pulpit\nNovelty Carriage Works — Chicago, Illinois\nThe Baldwin Bit\nWheeler's Patent Anti-Snow Ball Pad\nThe Dixie Farmer \/ National Chronicle\nHazard Powder Co. — gunpowder\nParker's Shot Gun and Shooting Table\nBallou's Monthly Magazine\nNew York Observer\nOroide Gold Watch\n\n\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: Appears complete with all page spreads present.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original letterpress printing from October 29, 1869 — not a reproduction.\nCondition Report: Consistent with its 156-year age — natural toning to newsprint throughout, with some edge wear and fraying at margins as visible in photographs. Note: one photo in the set did not capture usable content due to lighting. All readable pages are photographed and shown. Text, chess diagrams, and race results remain legible throughout.\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 156-year-old newsprint\nFlat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement\nFully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n\n🏷️ TAGS\n1869 Turf Field and Farm, Jerome Park Races 1869, Thoroughbred Racing New York 1869, Guelph Canada Races 1869, Newmarket October Meeting 1869, Sharpers of the Turf Racing Fraud, Trotting Colorado Texas 1869, Early Baseball History 1869, Chess Column 1869, Draughts Column 1869, Gilded Age Sporting Journal, Pimlico Maryland Jockey Club, Antique Newspaper 1869, Victorian Sporting Ephemera, 19th Century Americana","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264016871644,"sku":null,"price":55.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/bfb6dd55-il_fullxfull.7885807183_t6c5.jpg?v=1786496662"},{"product_id":"1869-turf-field-and-farm-new-years-eve-fox-hunting-baseball-full-year-index-dec-31","title":"1869 Turf Field and Farm — New Year's Eve, Fox Hunting, Baseball, Full Year Index, Dec 31","description":"1869 Turf Field and Farm — New Year's Eve, Fox Hunting, Baseball, Full Year Index, Dec 31\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\nThis December 31, 1869 issue of The Turf, Field and Farm — Volume IX, Number 27 — is the final issue of both the year and the entire decade, making it among the most significant single issues of this scarce Gilded Age sporting weekly. As the closing number of Volume IX, it contains the complete Contents of Volume IX — a full index of every article, story, and feature published throughout 1869 — alongside the Contents of Volume VIII, giving collectors and researchers a rare, comprehensive reference to an entire year of American sporting history. For collectors of early baseball history, fox hunting literature, Victorian chess ephemera, horse racing history, and 19th-century Americana, this New Year's Eve issue is an extraordinary primary source.\n\n🦊 FRONT PAGE — \"A DAY WITH THE FOX-HOUNDS\"\nThe final issue of the decade opens with a richly written narrative — \"A Day with the Fox-hounds\" — an immersive account of a fox hunting day in the English tradition, set against the backdrop of winter countryside and Gilded Age sporting society. A beautifully composed lead feature befitting a year-end number.\n\n🎊 \"A HAPPY NEW YEAR\" — YEAR-END EDITORIAL\nA warm year-end editorial welcomes 1870 and reflects on the paper's growth and the state of American sporting life — a snapshot of optimism at the dawn of a new decade from one of the nation's leading sporting journals.\n\n📚 CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX — A COMPLETE YEAR INDEX\nThe crown jewel of this issue for researchers and collectors: the full Contents of Volume IX, listing every article, story, correspondence, and feature published in The Turf, Field and Farm throughout 1869, alongside the Contents of Volume VIII. An invaluable reference document for anyone studying 19th-century American sporting history, horse racing, early baseball, or Victorian field sports.\n\n⚾ BASEBALL\nBaseball box scores and reporting continue through the final week of 1869, maintaining the paper's consistent coverage of the national game through the close of this pivotal season in baseball's early professional history.\n\n🏇 HORSE RACING \u0026amp; THE TURF\nA comprehensive final racing section for 1869 including:\n\nBuckeye Club Cincinnati — Spring Meeting 1870, commencing Tuesday May 24, $19,000 in purses, with detailed day-by-day conditions\nSaratoga Association — Kentucky Stakes and Kenner Stakes\nProspect Park Fair Ground Association — first week June 1870\nSherman House Stake for Colts and Fillies Foaled in 1868 — Oakridge Park, Chicago\nAmerican Jockey Club — Lambard Stakes\nProspect Park Colt Stake — 1870, 1871, and 1872\nMaryland Jockey Club — Bowie Stake for All Ages\nHerdic Park Trotting Meeting, Williamsport, PA\nMystic Park and the Baltemores — trotting results and analysis\nTrotting Stallions for 1870 — season listings\nEthan Allen — prominent trotting stallion advertisement\nPractical Remarks on Mules — breeding and management\nOn Buying Horses — practical advice for the sporting purchaser\n\n\n🎯 FIELD SPORTS \u0026amp; HUNTING\n\n\"My Last Summer Day's Shooting\" — an evocative personal narrative of a season's final shooting outing, richly written in the tradition of Victorian field sport literature\nThe Trigger column — gun notes, field sport dispatches, and equipment commentary\nFox Hunting — the front page narrative sets the tone for a full issue of sporting country life\n\n\n♟️ CHESS \u0026amp; DRAUGHTS\nMackenzie's Chess Chronicle with multiple annotated board diagrams closes out the year. The Game of Draughts column edited by A.J. Donaldson provides printed board positions — a visually striking collectible element for chess and checkers historians.\n\n🌾 FARM, FIELD \u0026amp; EDITORIAL\n\nAgriculture and Science section — seasonal farming and science notes\n\"Dying of Cholera\" — public health dispatch\nThe Currency — financial and economic commentary\nThe Civil Service Reform — political editorial\n\"Clubs, Clubs\" — editorial on the growth and culture of American sporting clubs\n\"A Multitudinal Offer\" — year-end sporting column\n\"Hunting in Art\" — essay on the depiction of field sports in fine art\nThe Prize Commission on Poultry Programmes\nCorrespondence from Detroit, Michigan — Fine Short-Barrel shooting dispatch\nAnswers to Correspondents — reader Q\u0026amp;A on farming, horses, and country life\nRumors of the Day — year-end sporting news roundup\n\n\n🎭 DRAMATIC \u0026amp; MUSICAL\nPatti Milliken section and New York theatrical notes close out the cultural calendar of 1869.\n\n🗞️ PERIOD ADVERTISEMENTS — A TIME CAPSULE IN THEMSELVES\n\nTiffany \u0026amp; Co. — final holiday stock announcement, store open until January 1st\nDunscomb — pleasure and trotting harness, 7 Great Jones Street, New York\nHoover, Calhoun \u0026amp; Co. — importers of saddlery \u0026amp; harness, 363 Broadway\nDusenbury \u0026amp; Van Duser — carriage manufacturers, light road wagons, buggies, phaetons, 135 \u0026amp; 137 Chrystie Street, New York\nDubois' Wagon — Peter Dubois' Son, track sulkies and skeleton wagons, 203 Greene Street\nBarker \u0026amp; Hamlins City Auction Mart — regular sales of horses, carriages, and harnesses, S.W. corner Broadway \u0026amp; 39th Street\nBoyd Breech-Loading Arms Co. — Francis Boyd, Treasurer, safety, accuracy, and strength of range\nJ. Riick — harness, saddles, blankets, whips, collars, and robes, 436 Sixth Avenue\nMammoth Billiard Establishment — Phélan \u0026amp; Collender, 34 tables, 261, 263 \u0026amp; 265 Washington Street, Brooklyn\nDr. A.J. Hopkins Magical Healing Powder — veterinary remedy\nLaflin \u0026amp; Rand \/ Hazard Powder Co. — gunpowder\nLand Sale — Henderson County, Kentucky, $100,000 capital prize, authorized by Kentucky legislature, Masonic Temple Louisville, 511 prizes\nWestern Stock Journal — Louisville, Kentucky\nThe Dixie Farmer — Nashville, Tennessee\nThe National Chronicle — Official Base Ball Organ\nThe Western Ruralist — Louisville, Kentucky\nPhrenological Journal \/ Family Magazine\nWheeler's Patent Anti-Snow Ball Pad\nDexter and Kentucky — Chromos for sale\n\n\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: Complete final issue of Volume IX, including the full Contents of Volume IX index page.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original letterpress printing from December 31, 1869 — not a reproduction.\nCondition Report: Consistent with its 156-year age — natural toning throughout, with some edge wear and fraying at margins as visible in photographs. Text, chess diagrams, and the volume index remain legible. A strong year-closing example of this scarce and rarely seen sporting weekly.\n\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n\nHoused in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 156-year-old newsprint\nFlat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement\nFully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n\n🏷️ TAGS\n1869 Turf Field and Farm, New Year's Eve 1869 Newspaper, Last Issue of the Decade 1869, Fox Hunting Victorian Literature, Early Baseball History 1869, Buckeye Club Cincinnati Racing 1870, Horse Racing Newspaper 1869, Chess Column 1869, Draughts Column 1869, Gilded Age Sporting Journal, Tiffany Holiday Advertisement 1869, Complete Volume Index 1869, Victorian Field Sports, Antique Newspaper 1869, 19th Century Americana","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264017723612,"sku":null,"price":55.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/42b68cf2-il_fullxfull.7868313309_838s.jpg?v=1786496679"},{"product_id":"1869-turf-field-and-farm-baseball-convention-english-derby-chess-horse-racing-dec-17","title":"1869 Turf Field and Farm — Baseball Convention, English Derby, Chess, Horse Racing, Dec 17","description":"1869 Turf Field and Farm — Baseball Convention, English Derby, Chess, Horse Racing, Dec 17\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\nThis December 17, 1869 issue of The Turf, Field and Farm — Volume IX, Number 25 — is one of the richest single issues of this scarce Gilded Age sporting weekly. Covering baseball, horse racing, chess, fox hunting, field sports, farming, and the glittering social world of New York theater and dining, it is a complete portrait of American sporting and cultural life at the dawn of the 1870s. For collectors of early baseball history, thoroughbred racing, Victorian chess ephemera, and 19th-century Americana, this issue rewards on every page.\n\n⚾ BASEBALL — NATIONAL BASE BALL CONVENTION, BOSTON\nA vivid firsthand account of the National Base Ball Convention held in Boston, where delegates from the Lowell and Harvard Clubs gathered at the Adams House before attending a performance of \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\" at Selwyn's Theatre. About sixty guests — club members, honored guests, and members of the press — then sat down to an elegant repast at the Parker House, hosted by Mayor Shurtleff. The full bill of fare is printed in detail, from oysters on the shell through mock turtle soup, escalloped oysters, boned turkey in jelly, mongrel ducks, prairie chicken, wood ducks, soufflés à la Vanilla, Charlotte Russe, and Roman Punch — a rare and intimate window into the social world surrounding early organized baseball.\n\n🏇 THE ENGLISH DERBY — \"AN INCIDENT OF THE BLUE RIBBON DAY\"\nThe front page lead feature is an extended narrative account of the English Derby — the Blue Ribbon of the turf — told through the eyes of an American observer traveling with friends Bates and Laird, following thoroughbred horses down to Epsom to see the great race run.\n\n🦊 FOX HUNTING \u0026amp; FIELD SPORTS\n\nFox Hunting in Wisconsin — a gripping account of a man near La Crosse tracking a fox into a hollow log, putting on heavy mittens to prevent a bite, only for the log to roll down a hill; a lynx killed by boys in Dayton, Wisconsin using a shotgun\nProspect Park track certified by engineer James Owen at just five inches over a mile — a notable precision measurement for the trotting world\n\n\n♟️ CHESS \u0026amp; DRAUGHTS\nA substantial chess and draughts section features Mackenzie's Chess Chronicle with multiple annotated board diagrams, a Game of Draughts column, and the Game of Draughts with printed board positions — a visually striking and collectible element for chess and checkers historians.\n\n🐴 HORSE RACING \u0026amp; THE TURF\nComprehensive racing coverage including:\n\nSaratoga Association — Kentucky Stakes and Kenner Stakes open and closing dates\nProspect Park Colt Stake — entry conditions for 1870, 1871, and 1872\nProspect Park Fair Ground Association — Fifth Annual Trotting Meeting, August 1870\nSherman House Stake for Colts and Fillies Foaled in 1868 — Oakridge Park Course, Chicago\nAmerican Jockey Club — Lambard Stakes\nMaryland Jockey Club — Bowie Stake for All Ages, Baltimore Course Fall Meeting 1870\nHerdic Park Trotting Association Spring Meeting, Williamsport, PA\nTrotting Congress — \"Thirty Thousand Dollars for Trot Racers\"\nThe Trotting Column with trotting records and horse management\nManagement of Horses and Management of Fox Hounds — practical sporting articles\nList of Blood Stock at Bird Farm, Saluda, Iowa\n\n\n🌾 FARM, FIELD \u0026amp; SCIENCE\n\nAgricultural Outlook — seasonal farming conditions and market analysis\nCapturing Fish by Lamplight — early sport fishing technique\nThe Great Poultry Show — poultry exhibition reporting\nNew York Tribune Veterinary Department — Dr. James Law, Veterinary Surgeon, Cornell University, offering guidance on diseases of cattle, horses, sheep, and dogs\n\n\n🎭 NEW YORK AMUSEMENTS \u0026amp; SOCIETY\nThe Amusements section covers the full Gilded Age Manhattan entertainment calendar:\n\nGrand Opera House — Robert W. Butler\nBooth's Theatre — Hamlet, Falstaff, Merry Wives of Windsor\nBowery Theatre\nNiblo's Garden — Jarrett \u0026amp; Palmer\n\nDramatic \u0026amp; Musical section features coverage of Patti Milliken.\n\n🗞️ PERIOD ADVERTISEMENTS — A TIME CAPSULE IN THEMSELVES\n\nTiffany \u0026amp; Co. — full holiday stock announcement, store open until January 1st, watches for timing races, 550 \u0026amp; 552 Broadway\nUnited States Watch Company, Giles Wales \u0026amp; Co. — American watches, pendant winders, key winders, 13 Maiden Lane, New York\nDunscomb — manufacturer of pleasure and trotting harness, 105 West 25th Street\nCalhoun \u0026amp; Co. — importers of saddlery \u0026amp; harness, 363 Broadway\nR.M. Stivers Carriages\nCity Auction Mart — horses, carriages, harnesses\nFancy Horses for sale\nMammoth Billiard Establishment — Phélan \u0026amp; Collender Tables\nLaflin \u0026amp; Rand Gunpowder\nHazard Powder Co. — shot gun and blasting powder\nParker's Shot Gun and Shooting Table\nHydraulic Clothes Washer — first premium\nJ. Rich — harness, saddlery \u0026amp; bridles\nNew York Tribune — \"The Great Farmers Paper\"\nThe Dixie Farmer, The National Chronicle, The Western Ruralist — competing 19th-century sporting and agricultural press\n\n\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: Appears complete with all page spreads present.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original letterpress printing from December 17, 1869 — not a reproduction.\nCondition Report: Consistent with its 156-year age — natural toning to newsprint throughout, with some edge wear and fraying at margins as visible in photographs. Text, chess diagrams, and advertisements remain legible. A strong and content-rich example of this scarce and rarely seen sporting weekly.\n\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n\nHoused in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 156-year-old newsprint\nFlat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement\nFully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n\n🏷️ TAGS\n1869 Turf Field and Farm, National Base Ball Convention 1869, Early Baseball History, English Derby 1869, Tiffany Holiday Advertisement 1869, Horse Racing Newspaper 1869, Gilded Age Sporting Journal, Chess Column 1869, Draughts Column 1869, Saratoga Racing 1869, American Jockey Club 1869, Fox Hunting Wisconsin 1869, Antique Newspaper 1869, Victorian Sporting Ephemera, 19th Century Americana Sonnet 4.6","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264017789148,"sku":null,"price":55.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/9a5a3e01-il_fullxfull.7868280319_qimg.jpg?v=1786496674"},{"product_id":"1867-baseball-champion-nine-morrisania-san-francisco-suez-canal-oct-26","title":"1867 Baseball Champion Nine Morrisania, San Francisco, Suez Canal — Oct 26","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · October 26, 1867\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically exceptional issue — a rare Victorian-era baseball portrait of the 1867 champion nine, just sixteen days after they clinched the championship; San Francisco and the Golden Gate; the Suez Canal; Farragut's squadron in Denmark; autumn harvest scenes; Fredericksburg and Hampton Civil War cemeteries; and Mrs. Lincoln's wardrobe on exhibition in New York. One of the most varied and collectible issues in the 1867 run.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⚾ BASEBALL — THE 1867 CHAMPION NINE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⚾ NEARLY HALF PAGE — \"THE CHAMPION NINE OF THE UNION BASE-BALL CLUB OF MORRISANIA, NEW YORK\" — WITH RELATED ARTICLE \"THE BASE-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP\"\nThe most significant illustration in the issue — a nearly half-page team portrait of the nine members of the Union Base-Ball Club of Morrisania, shown in uniform, two members holding bats and another holding what appears to be a catcher's mask. The Unions of Morrisania — a club based in a village that is now the South Bronx — had won the 1867 baseball championship just sixteen days before this issue went to press, defeating the Brooklyn Atlantics on October 10, 1867, in a dramatic conclusion to one of the most contested championship races of the amateur era. Their roster included future major leaguers Dave Birdsall (catcher), Charlie Pabor (pitcher), and Tommy Beals (outfielder). The championship article on the facing page documents one of the most significant and controversial pennant races of the pre-professional era, including disputed challenges involving the powerful Philadelphia Athletics. Published with an accompanying article on the championship, this is one of the earliest known full team portraits of a baseball champion in the American illustrated press — a significant and highly collectible piece of 19th-century baseball history. An essential addition to any collection of pre-professional era baseball ephemera.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🌉 SAN FRANCISCO \u0026amp; THE GOLDEN GATE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🦭 ILLUSTRATION — \"THE SEAL ROCKS AND CLIFF HOUSE NEAR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA\"\nAn illustration of the Seal Rocks and Cliff House at the western edge of San Francisco — the famous seaside landmark perched above the Pacific Ocean, with its famous California sea lion colony. A vivid piece of early San Francisco and California history, published just eighteen years after the Gold Rush transformed the city.\n\n🌊 ILLUSTRATION — \"SAN FRANCISCO AND ITS OUTER HARBOR, LOOKING TOWARD THE GOLDEN GATE\"\nA panoramic view of San Francisco harbor looking toward the Golden Gate — a significant piece of Victorian California history, capturing the great Pacific port at the height of its post-Gold Rush growth. The Golden Gate Bridge would not be built for another seventy years.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🌍 WORLD SCENES\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⚓ ILLUSTRATION — \"THE SUEZ CANAL\"\nAn illustration of the Suez Canal — then nearing completion after a decade of construction, the canal would open November 17, 1869, transforming global trade and the British Empire's reach to India. A significant piece of Victorian engineering and geopolitical history.\n\n🚢 ILLUSTRATION — \"FARRAGUT'S FLAGSHIP — PARTING OF THE VESSELS OF THE U.S. SQUADRON OFF SKAGEN POINT, JUTLAND, DENMARK\"\nAn illustration of Admiral Farragut's flagship USS Franklin departing from Skagen Point at the tip of Denmark — a vivid piece of Farragut's celebrated 1867-68 European goodwill tour, as the American squadron bid farewell at one of the great navigational landmarks of Northern Europe.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🍂 AUTUMN HARVEST SCENES\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🍇 FULL PAGE — \"GATHERING GRAPES — AN OCTOBER SCENE ON THE HUDSON\"\nA full-page illustration of grape harvesting on the Hudson River — a beautiful and very frameable piece of Hudson Valley agricultural and seasonal life in the Gilded Age.\n\n🎃 FULL PAGE — \"GATHERING PUMPKINS — AN OCTOBER SCENE IN NEW ENGLAND\"\nA companion full-page illustration of pumpkin gathering in New England — a warm and atmospheric piece of Victorian New England rural life. Together the two autumn harvest pages make a matched pair of exceptional quality.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⚔️ CIVIL WAR COMMEMORATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🪦 ILLUSTRATION — \"NATIONAL CEMETERY AT FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA\"\nAn illustration of the National Cemetery at Fredericksburg — one of the great Civil War battlefields and burial grounds of the Eastern theater, where Union dead from the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania were interred. A significant piece of Civil War commemoration history.\n\n🪦 ILLUSTRATION — \"LAYING THE CORNERSTONE OF THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT AT HAMPTON, VIRGINIA\"\nAn illustration of the cornerstone ceremony for a soldiers' monument at Hampton, Virginia — a significant piece of Civil War memorial and Reconstruction-era Virginia history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎸 FULL FRONT PAGE — \"THE MUSIC OF THE STREET — THE ORGAN GRINDER\"\nA full front-page illustration of a street organ grinder — a vivid and sympathetic piece of New York immigrant street life, capturing one of the most beloved and ubiquitous figures of Gilded Age New York.\n\n👗 ILLUSTRATION — \"MRS. LINCOLN'S WARDROBE ON EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK\"\nAn illustration of Mary Todd Lincoln's wardrobe on public exhibition in New York — a fascinating and poignant piece of Lincoln-era history, reflecting the extraordinary public fascination with the former First Lady in the years following her husband's assassination. Mrs. Lincoln had controversially attempted to sell her wardrobe in 1867 to raise funds, and its public exhibition was a sensation that drew both sympathy and criticism.\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 26, 1867\nCity ··············· New York\nItem Number ········ 173140\nPages ·············· Complete Issue · No 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 159-year-old newsprint\n• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nUnion Base Ball Club Morrisania, 1867 baseball champions, Morrisania baseball team portrait, Victorian baseball team photo, champion nine baseball 1867, pre-professional baseball antique, NABBP baseball champion, Bronx baseball history, baseball champion portrait antique, Victorian baseball uniform, Dave Birdsall Charlie Pabor, early baseball history print, San Francisco Cliff House, Seal Rocks San Francisco, San Francisco Golden Gate Victorian, California harbor antique, San Francisco 1867 antique, Golden Gate pre-bridge, Suez Canal construction Victorian, Suez Canal antique print, Farragut Skagen Denmark, Farragut European tour 1867, Hudson Valley grape harvest, gathering grapes Hudson, New England pumpkin gathering, autumn harvest Victorian antique, Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Civil War Fredericksburg cemetery, Hampton Virginia soldiers monument, Mary Todd Lincoln wardrobe, Mrs Lincoln exhibition, Lincoln wardrobe controversy 1867, organ grinder New York, street music Victorian, Harper's Weekly 1867, antique newspaper 1867, Reconstruction era newspaper, Victorian illustrated newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, baseball history collector, Civil War history collector, California history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Reconstruction era ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264020345052,"sku":null,"price":111.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/068db460-il_fullxfull.8212675580_hdky.jpg?v=1786496703"},{"product_id":"1887-early-baseball-harpers-weekly-september-10-iconic-thrown-out-on-second-baseball-centerfold-fortress-monroe-cover-castine-maine","title":"1887 Early Baseball, Harpers Weekly September 10  Iconic Thrown Out On Second Baseball Centerfold, Fortress Monroe Cover, Castine Maine","description":"This original September 10, 1887 issue of Harper’s Weekly features one of the greatest baseball engravings ever published in the 19th century — the spectacular double-page centerfold “Thrown Out On Second\" by Gilbert Gaul.\n\nThis is one of the closest, most dynamic in-game baseball scenes ever printed in Harper’s Weekly, with vivid detail of players, umpire, crowd, and stadium.\nThe centerfold measures approx. 14 x 20 inches (plus margins) — ideal for framing.\n\n✨ A must-have for baseball collectors\n🖼️ Stunning display potential (archival framing available)\n📚 Strong content throughout\n\n\n---\n\n⚾ Headline Feature: “Thrown Out On Second” — The Iconic Baseball Centerfold\n\nThis double-page illustration is the star of the issue and one of the most desirable baseball prints in all of Harper’s Weekly:\n\nFull game-action scene, far closer and more detailed than typical baseball engravings of the era\n\nDeep crowd background, accurate uniforms, and dynamic motion\n\nMeasures ~14 x 20 inches from border to border (plus margins)\n\nConsidered by collectors and dealers as one of the best baseball prints of all time\n\n\nA blue-chip piece for sports, Americana, and baseball history collections.\n\n\n---\n\n🎨 Full Front Cover — Zogbaum’s “Mars \u0026amp; Venus at Fortress Monroe”\n\nA romantic and highly displayable Zogbaum full-page engraving of an officer and a young woman at Fortress Monroe.\nA classic Harper’s Weekly cover with decorative appeal.\n\n\n---\n\n⚓ Full-Page: “An Old Maine Seaport — Castine”\n\nA rich composite engraving showing scenes of Castine, Maine including:\n\nHarbor and shoreline\n\nLocal architecture\n\nShip chandlery\n\nBoats and rustic street scenes\n\n\nPerfect for Maine or New England collectors.\n\n\n---\n\n⛵ American Canoe Association — Full Page of 6 Engravings\n\nA full-page sheet of six separate illustrations depicting the Annual Meet of the American Canoe Association, featuring:\n\nCanoe races\n\nSailing canoes\n\nProfiles of notable participants\n\n1880s recreational nautical culture\n\n\nStrong nautical content with great framing options.\n\n\n---\n\n📣 Additional Content\n\nSerialized fiction\n\nMilitary and naval snippets\n\nEditorials and news summaries\n\nNear the end: a full page of Gilded-Age advertising\n\nHarper’s Franklin Square Library listings on back page\n\n\n\n---\n\n📏 Size\n\nApprox. 16” x 11”, standard Harper’s Weekly folio format.\n\n\n---\n\n🧭 Condition — VG\n\nClean pages with excellent contrast\n\nVery light toning\n\nSome small edge chips at the spine (typical for unbound issues)\n\nCenterfolds intact\n\nNo major tears, writing, or repairs\n\n\nA very nice, displayable example with strong impressions.\n\n\n---\n\n🖼️ Archival Framing Available\n\nI offer museum-grade framing for:\n\nThe baseball centerfold\n\nThe Castine Maine page\n\nThe Zogbaum cover\n\n\nIncludes acid-free matting and UV-protected acrylic.\n\n\n---\n\n🔎 Perfect For\n\nBaseball collectors ⚾\n\nSports historians\n\nNautical collectors\n\nMaine history collectors\n\nAmericana enthusiasts\n\nInterior decorators\n\nGift buyers\n\n\n\n---\n\n📦 Shipping\n\nShips flat, protected in rigid packaging.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264026472668,"sku":null,"price":330.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/d67af2d2-il_fullxfull.8099414716_hdek.jpg?v=1786496770"},{"product_id":"1874-winslow-homer-seesaw-gloucester-baseball-in-england-sep-12","title":"1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 12, 1874\nComplete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nAn exceptional issue — one of the strongest of the entire 1874 run. A Winslow Homer full page leads the collectible content, paired with two rare baseball illustrations documenting the first American baseball tour of England, three Black Hills expedition prints capturing the moment gold was discovered in Custer's Gulch, and a striking array of genre and travel illustrations throughout. A must for collectors of American art, baseball history, and Western Americana.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎨 FULL FRONT PAGE — \"THE WELCOME\"\nA warm and engaging full front page scene — the kind of inviting Victorian genre image that anchors the issue beautifully.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎨 WINSLOW HOMER\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎨 FULL PAGE — WINSLOW HOMER: \"SEESAW — GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS\"\nThe crown jewel of the issue. A full-page Winslow Homer original illustration — one of his celebrated Gloucester series capturing childhood, summer, and the New England coast with his characteristic lightness and mastery of composition. Homer's Harper's Weekly work from this period is among the most sought-after American illustration of the 19th century, and his Gloucester scenes in particular are beloved by collectors of American art. This is an original woodblock print, not a reproduction.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⚾ BASEBALL IN ENGLAND\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⚾ FULL PAGE — \"THE AMERICAN BASEBALL PLAYERS IN ENGLAND — MATCH BETWEEN THE RED STOCKINGS AND THE ATHLETICS\"\nA full-page illustration documenting the landmark 1874 summer tour — the first time American professional baseball teams played abroad. The Boston Red Stockings and Philadelphia Athletics traveled to England to introduce the game to British audiences, playing both baseball and cricket matches. This illustration is a primary document of one of the most significant moments in baseball history — the game's first international ambassador moment.\n\n⚾ HALF PAGE — \"THE MAPLE LEAF BASEBALL CLUB OF GUELPH, ONTARIO, CANADA\"\nA half-page group portrait of the Maple Leaf Club players in uniform with bats — a wonderful and rare document of early Canadian baseball history. The Guelph Maple Leafs were one of the strongest amateur clubs in North America in this era. A significant collectible for Canadian sports history as well as early baseball collectors.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🏔️ THE BLACK HILLS — GOLD DISCOVERY\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nThree prints documenting the Black Hills Expedition of 1874 — General Custer's fateful survey that triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush and ultimately led to the Great Sioux War:\n\n⛏️ \"CAMP WHERE GOLD WAS FIRST DISCOVERED — CUSTER GULCH ON THE LEFT\"\nThe most historically significant of the three — depicting the precise camp where gold was first found during Custer's expedition, the discovery that would ignite a gold rush, shatter the Fort Laramie Treaty, and set in motion the chain of events leading to the Battle of the Little Bighorn just two years later. A genuine primary document of American Western history.\n\n🏕️ Two additional Black Hills Expedition scenes rounding out the coverage.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏥 FULL PAGE — \"THE FLOATING HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN'S GUILD\"\nA full-page illustration of the pioneering floating hospital that brought poor New York children out to sea air for relief from summer heat and disease — one of the great Gilded Age charitable institutions and a fascinating piece of New York social history.\n\n🪨 HALF PAGE — \"LIMESTONE IN KANSAS\"\nA half-page geological and landscape illustration of the Kansas limestone formations — a document of the era's intense interest in the American West's natural wonders.\n\n🐚 HALF PAGE — \"PEARL FISHING AT CEYLON\"\nA half-page illustration of pearl divers at work off the coast of Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) — a vivid Victorian travel and industry scene from the far reaches of the British Empire.\n\n🚢 MULTI-SCENE — \"ON THE VOYAGE TO GIBRALTAR\"\nComic sketches of shipboard life en route to Gibraltar — lively, humorous, and packed with Victorian character.\n\n🐎 FULL PAGE — \"ESCAPED — AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR\"\nA dramatic, atmospheric full-page illustration of figures in urgent flight on horseback through a dark landscape — a powerful Civil War or conflict narrative scene.\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 12, 1874\nCity ··············· New York\nItem Number ········ 173860\nPages ·············· Complete · 16 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 151-year-old newsprint\n• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the supplement pages\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nWinslow Homer original print, Winslow Homer Harper's Weekly, Winslow Homer Gloucester, Winslow Homer seesaw, Winslow Homer 1874, American art antique print, Homer children illustration, Homer New England print, baseball in England 1874, Red Stockings Athletics England, first baseball England tour, baseball history antique print, 1874 baseball Harper's Weekly, Maple Leaf Guelph baseball, Canadian baseball history, early baseball Canada, Black Hills gold discovery, Custer Black Hills expedition, Custer Gulch gold, Black Hills gold rush 1874, Great Sioux War origins, Black Hills 1874 print, Fort Laramie Treaty, floating hospital St Johns Guild, New York charity Victorian, pearl fishing Ceylon, Ceylon pearl divers Victorian, limestone Kansas illustration, Gibraltar voyage Victorian, Harper's Weekly 1874, antique newspaper 1874, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Winslow Homer collector, baseball collector antique, Western Americana history, American art original print, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, Homer Gloucester series, early professional baseball, international baseball history","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264027586780,"sku":null,"price":234.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/17642041-il_fullxfull.8098793064_cnlf.jpg?v=1786496782"}],"url":"https:\/\/thekeenantiquarian.com\/collections\/antique-baseball.oembed","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}