{"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","url":"https:\/\/thekeenantiquarian.com\/products\/1869-turf-field-and-farm-new-years-eve-fox-hunting-baseball-full-year-index-dec-31","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}