1881 NYSE Stock Exchange, Garfield Cabinet Vigil, Nast, Five Points Children — Sep 10
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1881 NYSE Stock Exchange, Garfield Cabinet Vigil, Nast, Five Points Children — Sep 10
📜 ABOUT THIS PIECE OF HISTORY 📜
This September 10, 1881 issue of Harper's Weekly is a historically extraordinary number — published just one day before President Garfield's death on September 19th, capturing the nation at its most anxious moment, alongside one of the finest early interior views of the New York Stock Exchange ever published, a moving Five Points charity excursion, the great cattle export trade, and Thomas Nast's back page commentary. For collectors of NYSE history, Garfield assassination history, New York City history, Thomas Nast, and Gilded Age Americana, this issue is an exceptional primary source of the first order.
🎨 FULL FRONT PAGE — W.A. ROGERS: "AN ANXIOUS NIGHT IN THE CABINET ROOM"
The full front page delivers a W.A. Rogers illustration of devastating emotional power — "An Anxious Night in the Cabinet Room" — showing the Garfield Cabinet gathered in tense, sleepless vigil as the President's condition deteriorated toward its fatal conclusion. Published just nine days before Garfield's death, this front page captures the final agonizing chapter of the seventy-nine day assassination ordeal with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. A deeply historically significant primary source document of the Garfield assassination crisis — a moment frozen in print just before the nation learned the worst.
📈 "THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE" — FULL PAGE INTERIOR
A fine full-page illustration of the interior of the New York Stock Exchange — one of the finest and most detailed early views of the NYSE trading floor ever published in the American illustrated press. In 1881 the New York Stock Exchange was the financial nerve center of the greatest economy on earth, and its trading floor was one of the most dramatic and consequential spaces in America. This engraving captures the brokers, the activity, the architecture, and the electric atmosphere of the exchange at the height of the Gilded Age — a primary source document of American financial history of exceptional interest to collectors of Wall Street history, NYSE history, financial history, and New York City history. A fully displayable piece of outstanding historical and collectible significance.
👩👦 "EXCURSION OF FIVE POINTS CHILDREN AND THEIR MOTHERS"
A full-page illustration of a charitable excursion for children and mothers from Five Points — the most notorious and desperately poor neighborhood in New York City, whose tenements and streets had become synonymous with urban poverty, crime, and immigrant struggle. These charitable excursions offered a rare day of fresh air, food, and dignity to families for whom such pleasures were entirely out of reach. A moving and historically significant piece of New York City social history, immigrant history, and Victorian American philanthropic life — one of the most important social documentary illustrations of the 1881 run.
🐄 DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "THE EXPORTATION OF CATTLE FROM NEW YORK TO ENGLAND" — TEN PRINTS
The visual centerpiece of the issue is a sweeping double-page centerfold presenting ten prints documenting the great American cattle export trade — the live cattle ships loading on the New York waterfront, the animals being herded aboard, the conditions below decks on the transatlantic crossing, and the arrival in English ports. The American cattle export trade was one of the most significant and controversial commercial operations of the Gilded Age, as American beef began to dominate British markets and transform both countries' agricultural economies. Ten distinct scenes make this one of the most comprehensive illustrated records of the cattle export trade in the Harper's Weekly archive — a primary source document of exceptional interest to collectors of agricultural history, transatlantic trade history, and Gilded Age commercial history.
🚢 "THE WRECK OF THE 'SANDUSKY'"
A one-third page illustration of the wreck of the Sandusky — a vivid maritime disaster image of great interest to collectors of American maritime history and Victorian seafaring life.
🏛️ "A DOOMED LANDMARK — OLD NEW YORK"
A half-page illustration of a beloved New York City landmark facing demolition — a poignant document of the relentless transformation of the city's built environment as Gilded Age development swept away the remnants of old New York. A historically significant piece for collectors of New York City architectural history and Victorian urban change.
🗳️ THOMAS NAST BACK PAGE — "HERE WE R AGAIN"
The back page delivers a Thomas Nast political cartoon — "Here We R Again" — a characteristically sharp and timely commentary on the political situation, making this issue doubly valuable for Nast collectors with both a W.A. Rogers front page and a Nast back page cartoon.
🖼️ PORTRAIT
"The Late Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles" — a small portrait of the distinguished New York lawyer, land developer, and civic leader who shaped the city's development through the mid-19th century, including the creation of Gramercy Park.
🔍 CONDITION & TRANSPARENCY 🔍
Completeness: Complete 16-page issue.
Authenticity: Guaranteed original woodblock printing from September 10, 1881 — not a reproduction.
Condition Report: Good condition for its 144-year age. Natural toning to the newsprint consistent with age. The W.A. Rogers Cabinet Room front page, the NYSE interior full page, the Five Points excursion illustration, the cattle export centerfold, and the Nast back page cartoon are all clear and displayable.
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.
📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION 📦
Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 144-year-old newsprint
Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold
Fully tracked for your peace of mind
🏷️ TAGS
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1881 NYSE Stock Exchange, Garfield Cabinet Vigil, Nast, Five Points Children — Sep 10
$88.88