{"title":"Antique Golf Newspapers \u0026 Prints","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal antique newspapers and illustrated prints featuring the earliest coverage of golf in America — a sport that exploded in popularity during the 1890s Gilded Age. These authentic Harper's Weekly issues include stunning A.B. Frost golf centerfolds, early golf course scenes, and coverage of the sport's first American champions. An exceptional find for golf historians, sports memorabilia collectors, and country club enthusiasts who appreciate the game's rich heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1895-life-magazine-marion-crawford-madame-sans-gene-golf-pabst-march-14","title":"1895 LIFE Magazine — Marion Crawford, Madame Sans-Gêne, Golf, Pabst — March 14","description":"1895 LIFE Magazine — Marion Crawford, Madame Sans-Gêne, Golf, Pabst — March 14\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\nThis March 14, 1895 issue of Life magazine — Volume XXV, Number 637 — is a richly varied issue from one of the most culturally alive weeks of the Gilded Age spring. Published one week before the celebrated No. 638, it shares the same sharp wit and beautiful illustration that made the original Life the sophisticated weekly of choice for educated New Yorkers — and delivers its own distinct pleasures: photographic portraits of one of America's most famous novelists, coverage of the theatrical sensation of the season, more early golf comedy, and one of the most visually striking advertisements in the entire 1895 run. For collectors of Victorian literary history, theatrical history, sports history, and Gilded Age Americana, this is an issue that rewards on every page.\n\n✍️ F. MARION CRAWFORD — \"THE GROWTH OF GREATNESS\"\nTwo full photographic portrait illustrations of F. Marion Crawford — as a boy and as a young man — anchor an extended profile in Life's running \"Growth of Greatness\" series. In 1895, Crawford was one of the most famous and best-selling American novelists alive: prolific, widely translated, and read on both sides of the Atlantic, a literary celebrity in the fullest sense. His novels of Italian aristocracy, American society, and international intrigue were the prestige fiction of the era. These portrait illustrations, combined with the biographical profile and the accompanying poem \"Would You?\", make for a rare and fascinating primary document of Victorian American literary celebrity. A prized piece for collectors of American literary history and Gilded Age cultural life.\n\n🎭 \"MADAME SANS-GÊNE\" — THE THEATRICAL SENSATION OF 1895\nThe drama column delivers substantial coverage of Madame Sans-Gêne — the French play about Napoleon's laundress-turned-Duchess that was the theatrical event of the season on both sides of the Atlantic. Written by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau, the play had conquered Paris and was now captivating American audiences with its combination of Napoleonic spectacle, social comedy, and a magnificently vivid heroine. Life's engaged, detailed coverage captures the excitement surrounding one of the defining theatrical moments of the decade — essential reading for collectors of Victorian theatrical history and Napoleonic cultural history.\n\n⛳ MORE GOLF CARTOONS — \"OVER THE HILL\" \u0026amp; \"NOW HERE'S A PRETTY MESS\"\nThe golf comedy continues with another multi-panel sequence tracking the suffering of the Victorian amateur — \"Over the Hill,\" \"Now Here's a Pretty Mess,\" and \"He Was Not As Even-Nerved As He Expected\" — each panel a precise, affectionate skewering of a game that was conquering America at bewildering speed. Paired with the golf content in the following week's No. 638, these two issues together form a remarkable record of golf's explosive arrival in American satirical illustration. A wonderful piece of early American golf history.\n\n🥊 \"A KNOCKOUT IN TWO ROUNDS\" — EPISCOPAL CLERGY BOXING\nOne of the funniest sequences in the issue: a cartoon strip depicting Episcopal clergymen engaged in a boxing match — rendered in Life's dry, perfectly-timed style. Victorian institutional satire at its most entertainingly absurd.\n\n🍺 PABST BLUE RIBBON — FULL-PAGE BACK COVER AD\nThe back cover delivers one of the most visually striking advertisements in the entire 1895 run: a full-page Pabst Blue Ribbon ad in dramatic black, proclaiming \"Supreme Award World's Fair, Milwaukee\" — the World's Columbian Exposition victory that gave the beer its name and its legend. Bold, graphic, and immediately recognizable to any student of American brewing history or advertising history, this back page is a fully displayable piece in its own right.\n\n🗞️ THE ADS AS TIME CAPSULE\nBeyond Pabst: Rambler Bicycles, Cuticura Works Wonders, W.L. Douglas $3 Shoes, Kombi Camera $3.50, Fibre Chamois (puffed sleeves and skirts — the height of 1895 fashion), Salva-cea for fire burns, and Life's Monthly Calendar once again featuring the inescapable Trilby Examination. A complete, vivid portrait of Gilded Age commercial life.\n\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: Complete issue.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original printing from March 14, 1895 — not a reproduction.\nCondition: Presents very nicely for its 130-year age. Natural toning consistent with age. The Crawford portrait pages, drama coverage, golf cartoons, and Pabst back cover are all clear and displayable.\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully — I'm happy to provide additional close-ups of any page or area of concern before you buy.\n\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n\nHoused in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay\nFlat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement\nFully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n\n🏷️ TAGS\n1895 Life Magazine, F Marion Crawford Victorian Novelist, Madame Sans-Gêne Sardou 1895, Golf History Cartoons Victorian, Pabst Blue Ribbon Antique Ad, Gilded Age Humor Magazine, Chimmie Fadden Townsend, Rambler Bicycles Victorian, Episcopal Satire Victorian, Victorian Literary History, Antique Magazine 1895, 19th Century Americana, Gilded Age Advertising, New York Victorian Humor, Victorian Theatrical History2 \/ 2Sonnet 4.6Extended","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264014545116,"sku":null,"price":55.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/5da86c42-il_fullxfull.7912487721_285f.jpg?v=1786496638"},{"product_id":"1895-life-magazine-lillie-langtry-golf-bloomers-tammany-hall-march-21","title":"1895 LIFE Magazine — Lillie Langtry, Golf, Bloomers, Tammany Hall — March 21","description":"1895 LIFE Magazine — Lillie Langtry, Golf, Bloomers, Tammany Hall — March 21\n\n📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜\nThis March 21, 1895 issue of Life magazine — Volume XXV, Number 638 — is one of the most content-rich issues of the spring 1895 run, landing just as golf was conquering America, the Trilby mania was at full fever, and Lillie Langtry was the most talked-about woman on two continents. The original Life was the sophisticated, satirical illustrated weekly — the New Yorker of the Gilded Age — and this issue showcases everything that made it essential reading for educated New Yorkers in 1895. For collectors of Victorian theatrical history, sports history, New York political history, women's history, and Gilded Age culture, this issue rewards on every page.\n\n😄 COVER — \"ONE THEORY\"\nThe cover is vintage Life at its wittiest: a beautifully drawn parlor scene of a man and a well-dressed woman, with the exchange beneath — He: Great heavens! I've been talking to you for three hours. \/ She: Oh! It seems only half that time. \/ He (insinuatingly): Why is that, I wonder? \/ She: I suppose it's because one forgets so much faster than you talk. — The kind of sharp, elegant verbal comedy that made Life the must-read of its era. A fully displayable cover of great charm.\n\n🎭 LILLIE LANGTRY — GOSSIP OF THE DRAMA\nTwo pages of drama coverage center on Lillie Langtry — the Jersey Lily herself — with multiple illustrations and extended commentary on her American theatrical tour. In 1895 Langtry was perhaps the most famous woman in the English-speaking world: celebrated beauty, actress, the Prince of Wales's most celebrated companion, and one of the first true celebrities of the modern age. Her American tours were events, and Life's drama column tracks her every move with the fascinated attention she commanded everywhere she went. A prized piece for collectors of theatrical history, Victorian celebrity culture, and Gilded Age women's history.\n\n⛳ GOLF CARTOONS — \"ONE OF HIS FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH GOLF\"\nA glorious multi-panel cartoon sequence follows an unfortunate gentleman through the humiliations of learning golf — and it is funnier for being so timely. Golf had arrived in America only a few years before 1895, exploding from a handful of clubs to a national craze almost overnight. By March 1895 it was the hot topic in every parlor and club, and Life was there to mock the obsession with affection. Multiple panels trace the hapless golfer's education, captioned with the dry wit Life perfected. A wonderful piece of American sports history and early golf illustration — the game's Victorian debut in American satirical art.\n\n🚲 THE BLOOMER JOKE — \"FOR FEAR OF BREAKING THE SABBATH\"\nOne of the most delightful single pages in the issue is a full-page illustration reprinted from the Pall Mall Budget: two women in the practical bloomer cycling costume of the era, with the caption — First Lady: Is to a lace gown, I'd bloomers well, don't I? \/ Second do.: Yes — and I shouldn't go out with it on Sunday for fear of breaking the Sabbath! The joke lands on multiple levels: the bloomers as scandalous departure from feminine convention, the bicycle culture that made them necessary, and the very Victorian anxiety about what was and wasn't respectable. An irresistible piece of New Woman history and Victorian social comedy.\n\n🏛️ TAMMANY HALL \u0026amp; NEW YORK POLITICS\nThe editorial pages engage squarely with New York City's great political drama: Tammany Hall, the Albany legislature, and Republican boss Thomas Platt — the machine politicians who ran New York in the 1890s with a combination of patronage, muscle, and audacity. Life was never shy about political commentary, and this issue delivers sharp observations on the state of New York governance at a pivotal Gilded Age moment.\n\n⚓ \"THE WONDERS OF AMERICA\" — NAVAL REVIEW ILLUSTRATION\nA striking illustration documents the naval review of the American fleet — the warships of the United States Navy in formation, rendered with the confident draughtsmanship that distinguished Life's illustration from its competitors. A vivid piece of American naval history and Victorian military illustration.\n\n🗞️ THE ADS AS TIME CAPSULE\nThe advertising pages are a Gilded Age parade: Stearns Bicycles, Bromo-Seltzer (\"Cures all Headaches — Morning, Noon and Night\"), Haviland China Limoges (insisting buyers check each piece for the H\u0026amp;Co mark), Ivory Soap, Raymond's Vacation Excursions Beyond the Rockies, and Life's Monthly Calendar for March, once again promising the Trilby Examination — a reminder that the Svengali craze was still fully raging. Together they paint a vivid picture of what Americans were buying, doing, and thinking in the spring of 1895.\n\n🔍 CONDITION \u0026amp; TRANSPARENCY 🔍\nCompleteness: Complete issue.\nAuthenticity: Guaranteed original printing from March 21, 1895 — not a reproduction.\nCondition: Presents well for its 130-year age. Natural toning consistent with age. The cover, Lillie Langtry drama pages, golf cartoon spread, bloomer illustration, and naval review illustration are all clear and displayable.\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully — I'm happy to provide additional close-ups of any page or area of concern before you buy.\n\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION 📦\n\nHoused in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay\nFlat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement\nFully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n\n🏷️ TAGS\n1895 Life Magazine, Lillie Langtry Victorian Actress, Golf History 1895 Cartoons, New Woman Bloomers Cycling, Tammany Hall Gilded Age, Trilby Svengali 1895, Victorian Humor Magazine, Naval Review American Fleet, Chimmie Fadden Townsend, Bromo-Seltzer Antique Ad, Stearns Bicycle Victorian, Haviland Limoges China Ad, Gilded Age New York Politics, Victorian Social Satire, Antique Magazine 1895They are in very nice condition. Could you provide pricing suggestions before the listing5:31 PMThinkingThinkingSonnet 4.6Extended","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264014577884,"sku":null,"price":55.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/713a4b6a-il_fullxfull.7912457781_9hj7.jpg?v=1786496642"},{"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-colonel-theodore-roosevelt-front-page-photo-puerto-rico-end-golf-sep-24","title":"1898 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Front Page Photo, Puerto Rico End, Golf — Sep 24","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 24, 1898\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nOne of the most collectible issues of the entire Spanish-American War run — a full front-page photograph of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt published nine days after his muster-out and just weeks before his election as Governor of New York. This is Roosevelt at the defining pivot of his career, the moment the Rough Rider became a presidential candidate in waiting. Combined with the dramatic ending of the Puerto Rico campaign, the homecoming of New York's cavalry, and four golf photographs, this is an exceptional issue for Roosevelt collectors, Spanish-American War historians, and golf enthusiasts alike.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎖️ COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT — FRONT PAGE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n📸 FULL FRONT PAGE PHOTOGRAPH — \"COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT, U.S.V.\"\nThe full front page of this issue is a photograph of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt — published nine days after his muster-out from the Rough Riders on September 15, 1898, and just weeks before his election as Governor of New York on November 8. Roosevelt had resigned his post as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in May 1898 to join the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the Rough Riders — a regiment that included cowboys and gamblers, hunters and prospectors, Buffalo Soldiers, college athletes, and Native Americans from 45 states. He led the charge up San Juan Heights on July 1, 1898, calling it \"the great day of my life.\" The Rough Riders suffered the highest casualty rate of any American unit in the war — more than one-third were killed, wounded, or stricken by disease. Roosevelt returned from Cuba a national hero of unprecedented fame, second in celebrity only to Admiral Dewey himself. His uniform, tailored by Brooks Brothers, became iconic; his memoir The Rough Riders became a bestseller; and his front-page presence in Harper's Weekly in September 1898 reflects the national obsession with a man who would be in the White House within three years.\n\nThis is not merely a historical curiosity — it is a primary document of Theodore Roosevelt's ascent, published at the exact moment his transformation from soldier to president-in-waiting began. Roosevelt collectors, presidential history enthusiasts, and Spanish-American War historians will recognize this immediately as one of the most significant Roosevelt issues in the Harper's Weekly run.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🇵🇷 THE DRAMATIC ENDING OF THE WAR IN PUERTO RICO\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏝️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"THE DRAMATIC ENDING OF THE WAR IN PUERTO RICO\"\nA double-page centerfold documenting the conclusion of the Puerto Rico campaign — General Miles's swift four-pronged advance across the island had ended with a ceasefire on August 13, 1898, when Spain agreed to the peace protocol. The \"dramatic ending\" captured here — with Spanish forces still on the island and the transfer of sovereignty being negotiated — is a primary document of the final military chapter of the Spanish-American War's Caribbean theater. Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Paris signed December 10, 1898, and remains a U.S. territory today.\n\n🇵🇷 FULL PAGE — \"WITH OUR TROOPS IN PUERTO RICO\" — TWO PRINTS\nTwo prints of American forces in Puerto Rico during the closing days of the campaign — a vivid piece of Puerto Rican and American military history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🐎 THE CAVALRY COMES HOME\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🐎 FULL PAGE — \"THE HOME-COMING OF NEW YORK'S CAVALRY\" — FOUR PRINTS\nFour prints of New York's cavalry returning home — the triumphant welcome given to the men who had fought at Las Guasimas and San Juan Hill, including the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry who had served alongside the Rough Riders throughout the campaign. A vivid piece of New York military and social history at the moment of maximum national celebration.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⛳ GOLF — FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⛳ FOUR GOLF PHOTOGRAPHS\nFour photographs documenting golf — following the previous week's celebrated A.B. Frost golf centerfold, Harper's Weekly continued its golf coverage in this issue. Golf was the fastest-growing sport in America in 1898, and four photographs in a single issue — alongside the war coverage — reflects both the sport's rapid rise and Harper's Weekly's recognition of its affluent readership's interests. An unusual and collectible piece of early American golf photography.\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 24, 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\nColonel Theodore Roosevelt photo, Roosevelt Rough Riders Harper's Weekly, Roosevelt Spanish American War, Roosevelt front page 1898, Theodore Roosevelt USV, Rough Riders colonel Roosevelt, Roosevelt muster out 1898, Roosevelt Governor New York, Roosevelt presidential history, Roosevelt San Juan Hill, TR Rough Riders antique print, presidential history Roosevelt, Roosevelt collector antique, Roosevelt 26th President, Puerto Rico war ending, dramatic ending Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Spanish American War centerfold, New York cavalry homecoming, 9th 10th cavalry homecoming, Buffalo Soldiers homecoming, cavalry New York Spanish War, golf photos 1898 antique, early American golf photographs, Gilded Age golf history, Harper's Weekly golf 1898, Spanish American War Harper's Weekly, Harper's Weekly 1898, antique newspaper 1898, antique illustration engraving, framing quality print, Roosevelt collector, presidential history collector, golf history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264018608348,"sku":null,"price":151.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/d681620d-il_fullxfull.8259996928_pcn4.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":"1898-hawaii-flag-raised-71st-ny-homecoming-golf-photos-camp-wikoff-sep-10","title":"1898 Hawaii Flag Raised, 71st NY Homecoming, Golf Photos, Camp Wikoff — Sep 10","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 10, 1898\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically exceptional and unusually varied issue — the raising of the American flag over Hawaii documented in two full illustrations, the triumphant homecoming of the 71st New York Volunteers, Camp Wikoff life in a W.A. Rogers double-page centerfold, seven golf photographs, Guam documented for the first time as an American territory, and troops in Puerto Rico and the Philippines. One of the richest single issues of the 1898 Spanish-American War run.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🌺 HAWAII — THE FLAG IS RAISED\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌺 HALF PAGE — \"RAISING THE FLAG OVER HAWAII, AUGUST 12, 1898\"\nA half-page illustration of the American flag being raised over Hawaii on August 12, 1898 — the formal annexation ceremony at Iolani Palace in Honolulu that transferred sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States. As the Stars and Stripes rose over the palace, the Hawaiian national anthem was played for the last time and replaced by the Star-Spangled Banner. Four centuries of Polynesian independence and five years as a republic ended in that moment. Hawaii would not become a state until 1959. This illustration — published less than a month after the ceremony — is a primary document of one of the most significant and consequential events in Hawaiian and Pacific history.\n\n🌺 FULL PAGE — \"THE USHERING IN OF THE NEW REGIME IN HAWAII, AUGUST 12, 1898\"\nA companion full-page illustration of the broader ceremonies marking the beginning of American rule in Hawaii — the military ceremonies, the gathered crowds, the officials of the new territorial government taking their places. Together with the flag-raising illustration, these two pages form a comprehensive primary visual document of the day Hawaii became American. A significant piece of Hawaiian history, Pacific history, and American expansionism — and a meaningful piece for any collector of Hawaiian or Pacific Islander history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⛳ GOLF — SEVEN PHOTOS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⛳ SEVEN GOLF PHOTOGRAPHS\nSeven photographs documenting golf — published at a pivotal moment in the sport's American history. Golf had been introduced to the United States only in the late 1880s, and by 1898 it was the fastest-growing sport among the American upper and middle classes. The United States Golf Association had been founded in 1894; the first U.S. Open was played in 1895; and by 1898 golf courses were spreading rapidly across the Northeast and Midwest. Seven photographs of golf in a single issue is an unusual and significant concentration of early American golf documentation — a vivid and collectible piece of Gilded Age sporting history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🎖️ THE 71ST NEW YORK — HOMECOMING\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🎉 FULL PAGE — \"THE HOMECOMING OF THE 71ST ANNUAL NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS, AUGUST 29, 1898\"\nA full-page illustration of the triumphant return of the 71st New York Volunteer Infantry — one of the most celebrated units of the Spanish-American War, who had fought at the Battle of San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898, and whose homecoming parade through New York City on August 29 drew enormous crowds. The 71st New York's role at San Juan Hill was the subject of some controversy — Theodore Roosevelt claimed they had faltered under fire, while the regiment's veterans disputed this vigorously — making their homecoming politically as well as emotionally charged. A significant piece of New York military and social history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🏥 CAMP WIKOFF\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏕️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"LIFE AT CAMP WIKOFF\" — BY W.A. ROGERS\nA double-page centerfold by the celebrated illustrator W.A. Rogers depicting daily life at Camp Wikoff — the quarantine and demobilization camp at Montauk Point, Long Island, where 25,000 soldiers returning from Cuba were processed, many of them suffering from yellow fever, malaria, typhoid, and dysentery. Rogers's centerfold captures the human texture of camp life — the tents, the routines, the men — in a comprehensive and very frameable composition.\n\n🏕️ FULL PAGE — \"MONTAUK POINT — VISITORS IN CAMP\"\nA full-page illustration of civilian visitors at Camp Wikoff — family members and curious New Yorkers who traveled to Montauk to see the returning soldiers. A warm and humanizing piece of the home-front response to the war.\n\n🏥 FULL PAGE — \"HOSPITAL SCENES AT CAMP WIKOFF\"\nA full-page illustration of the hospital facilities at Camp Wikoff — where the inadequacy of medical provision became a national scandal, prompting congressional investigations and Army medical reform. A significant and sobering piece of American military medical history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🌏 THE NEW AMERICAN EMPIRE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🇵🇷 FULL FRONT PAGE — \"WITH OUR TROOPS IN PUERTO RICO\"\nA dramatic full front-page illustration of American troops in Puerto Rico — the island ceded to the United States by Spain in the Treaty of Paris, now under American military administration.\n\n🇵🇭 TWO FULL PAGES — \"WITH OUR TROOPS IN THE PHILIPPINES\"\nTwo full pages of illustrations of American forces in the Philippines — where the occupation of Manila was generating mounting tension with Filipino independence fighters that would erupt into the Philippine-American War in February 1899.\n\n🏝️ HALF PAGE — \"SCENES ON THE ISLAND OF GUAM, OUR NEW ACQUISITION IN THE LADRONES\"\nA half-page illustration of Guam — the Pacific island seized from Spain during the war and ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. Published just weeks after American sovereignty was established, this is an early and rare primary document of Guam as an American territory.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. 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