1877 Southern California Sports, Nast Cartoons, Constantinople — Mar 3
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🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · March 3, 1877
Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York
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A varied and visually rich issue — Southern California Sunday sports, two Thomas Nast cartoons, and a supplement containing a stunning Constantinople panorama, British Museum mallards, a Brighton Aquarium bulldog, and an elaborate ornamental theatrical composite page. Strong content for collectors of California history, Ottoman history, and Victorian natural history illustration.
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🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE & NAST CARTOONS
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✏️ FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST POLITICAL CARTOON
A Thomas Nast political cartoon leading the full front page — published in the final days before Hayes's inauguration, Nast's pointed commentary on the post-election moment.
✏️ FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST POLITICAL CARTOON
A second full-page Nast cartoon — two Nast pieces in one issue at a pivotal moment in American political history.
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🐎 INSIDE THE ISSUE
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🌴 FULL PAGE — "SUNDAY SPORTS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA"
A full-page illustration of Sunday sporting life in Southern California — published at a time when Southern California was still a sparsely populated frontier, decades before the great real estate booms that would transform it. A significant and early piece of California history, documenting leisure culture in a region most Americans had never seen and knew only from magazine illustration.
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🕌 THE SUPPLEMENT
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🕌 FULL PAGE — "THE TURKISH ADMIRALTY BUILDINGS, CONSTANTINOPLE, WHERE THE LATE CONFERENCE WAS HELD"
A spectacular full-page panoramic view of Constantinople — seen from a hillside Ottoman cemetery, carved gravestones and tall cypress trees in the foreground, the Golden Horn harbor spread beyond, minarets, domes, and the city skyline stretching to the horizon, ships at anchor in the water. The caption refers to the Constantinople Conference of 1876-77, the international diplomatic gathering that attempted to resolve the Balkan crisis before the Russo-Turkish War broke out. A magnificent and deeply atmospheric piece of Victorian Ottoman history — and one of the finest frameable illustrations in the run.
🦆 HALF PAGE — "MALLARDS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM"
A charming half-page illustration of mallard ducks at the British Museum — a delightful piece of Victorian natural history and London life, capturing the wildlife that made its home in one of the world's great cultural institutions.
🐕 HALF PAGE — "BULLDOG AT THE BRIGHTON AQUARIUM"
A half-page illustration of a bulldog at the Brighton Aquarium — a wonderful piece of Victorian animal and aquarium culture. The Brighton Aquarium, opened in 1872, was one of the first public aquariums in the world, and its curious visitors and their equally curious animals made for irresistible illustrative material.
🎭 DOUBLE-PAGE — "VOGELWUTSHEIM"
An elaborate ornamental double-page spread featuring a decorative title banner and nine oval and rectangular portrait vignettes of theatrical or character figures, each set within ornate decorative frames. A beautifully designed Victorian composite portrait page.
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📋 CONDITION
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I 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.
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📌 DETAILS
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Publication ········ Harper's Weekly
Date ··············· March 3, 1877
City ··············· New York
Item Number ········ 174118
Pages ·············· Complete Issue + Supplement
Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper
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📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION
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• Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 148-year-old newsprint
• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the supplement pages
• Fully tracked for your peace of mind
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1877 Southern California Sports, Nast Cartoons, Constantinople — Mar 3
$44.44