Lajoie was drunk...debut of Roger Bresnahan...

PUBLIC LEDGER, Philadelphia, Aug. 28, 1897 On pg. 16 under SPORTS is a detailed summary  and the box score of a game between the Phillies and Pirates. Napoleon Lajoie, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (the Hall of Shame on this day!), arrived at the game drunk, as revealed in the summary: First baseman Lajoie was not only late in reporting for duty yesterday afternoon, but when he did ar... See More  

St. Augustine, Florida in 1874...

HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, New York, December, 1874. Featured within this issue are several prints associated with St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement and port in the continental United States (source - Wiki), along with lengthy supporting text. Other period items are present throughout.



This Reader's Digest sized issue containing... See More  

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, December 29, 1877.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "Holiday Sketches" "The Paris Exposition of 1878" "The China Tea Trade" "Winter --- Reynard Blockaded by Snow"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, December 4, 1877.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "The Exhibition of the Society of Decorative Art" "The Huron Disaster" "The New Chapel of St. Augustine" "A Visit of Condolence" "Philadelphia's Farewell to Minister Welsh" "The Paris Exposition of 1878"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, February 26, 1878.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "The Grand Masquerade Ball of the Arion Society at Gilmore's Garden" "The Exporation of Central Africa" "Gallipoli, the Turkish Port on the Dardanelles" "An Inducement" "Music and Aesthetics"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, January 12, 1878.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "A Vision of the Approaching Ball Season" "Going to Bed" "The Broken Lyre" "The Turo-Russian War" "General Borel" "Why Not?" "The Late Francois Vincent Raspail" "The Mania for Restoration"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, June 25, 1879.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "Finis" (Napoleon death) "Potato Gatherers from the Paiting by Bastien-Lepage in the Paris Salon of 1879" "The Little Miser" "Thrashing" "Columbia Springs, Near Hudson, N. Y."

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, January 22, 1878.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "Fernando Wood's Sixteen Investigations" "The Turco-Russian War" "The Howage Artic Expedition" "An Artic Snow-Storm" "Siberian Horses in a Snow-Storm"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, May 22, 1879.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "Lucretia Borgia at Albany" "The Inter-Oceanic Canal Project" "Lewis Pughe" "The J.M. Brunswick & Balke Company Cup" "William Hunter"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, May 28, 1879.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "The Celebration of the Queen's Brithday in Montreal" "The Imperial and Royal Silver Wedding in Vienna" "A Morning Call" "Property of the Chicago and Minonk Coal and Coke Company" "The Gintleman that Pays the Rint" "Hedging"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, November 17, 1877.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "November Days" "Views in the Crater of Kilauea" "The Tithe Collector's Return" "Rest by the Way" "The Competition for the Prize of Rome at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris" "The Suicide, William F. Coolbaugh"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, November 24, 1877.  A great issue for framing and displaying! "The Vanderbilt Wedding" "Late for Dinner" "Musical Memories" "Cold Without"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, June 4, 1879.  A great issue for framing and displaying! "Poor Glue" "Landscapes in the Paris Salon of 1879" "An Attack on Zulu Warriors" "Circumstantial Evidence"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, February 16, 1878.  A great issue for framing and displaying! "Cartoons on Current Topics" "The Uncrushed!" "Exposition of South American Antiquities at the Palais de Undustrie, Paris" "The Crisis in the East - Views in the Dardanelles" "Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Washington, D.C. - College Building, Opened To-Day" "The Late Gideon Welles" "... See More  

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, February 23, 1878.  A great issue for framing and displaying! "Waltz Notes" Marie Litta, The New Prima Donna" "Stanley's Explorations in Central Aftrica - Hauling Canoes Up Inkisi Falls" "Illustrated Magazines for March (multiple illustrations on one page)" "The Snow"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, April 14, 1879.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "The great Brooklyn Pow-Wow" "Sketches of Cadet Life at the Woolwich Military Academy, Woolwich, England" "Chopin" "The Mer de Glace, Upper Savoy" "The Great Flood at Szegedin, Hungary" "The New Flags of the French Army"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, April 17, 1879.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "Preparing for the Tournament" "The Song of Spring" "The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race" "Hot Pies!" "Descending From the General to the Particular"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, April 10, 1879.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "Have Americans Any Rights That Bismarck Must Respect?" "The Zulu War" "Mary Ascending the Hill of Calvary" "Bear Shooting in Russia"

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, March 26, 1879.  A great issue for framing and displaying!  "The Whirligig of Time" "Dona Juana L Loca, Queen of Castle and Leon, Conveying the Body of her Husband, Philip of Burgundy, from Burgos to Grendad" "Sketches in France" "Sketches in Canada" "Fancy Dress Ball of the Philharmonic Society in Vienna"

THE INTER OCEAN, Illustrated Supplement, Chicago, August 23, 1893



A great issue for framing and displaying! The full front page is a color illustration of  "The Missouri State Building at the World's Fair". The back page features a full page color print "The Massachusetts State Building at the World's Fair". Three tiny binding holes at the ... See More  

THE INTER OCEAN, Illustrated Supplement, Chicago, July 12, 1893



A great issue for framing and displaying! The full front page is a color illustration of  "On the Veranda of the Wisconsin Building". The back page features a full page color print "Government Exhibit at the World's Fair". Three tiny binding holes at the blank spine margin, some m... See More  

Trouble in Hayti...

DESERET EVENING NEWS, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, March 11, 1889 This newspaper is a "territorial" issue, printed six years before Utah would become a state. The front page has a wide variouety of news reports, many from the "Old West", but it also has an article headed: "The Bloody Haytiens" "A Town Captured and the Prisoners Butchered" with the report shown in full in the photos b... See More  

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, November 5, 1877.  A great issue for framing and displaying!   "How 'Our Side' May Lose The Election" "The Famine in the British India" "The Election Excitement in France" "Burning of the Duke of Argyll's Castle at Inverary". This issue has some paper folds in the lower right-hand corner.

THE DAILY GRAPHIC, New York, November 13, 1877.  A great issue for framing and displaying!   "Our Hot-Corn Plenipotentiary at the Paris Exhibition" "The Voyage of Cleopatra's Needle from Alexandra to England" "The French Exploring Expedition in the Desert of Sahara, Algeria" "Works of the Southern White Lead Co., St. Louis., Mo."

THE INTER OCEAN, Illustrated Supplement, Chicago, August 30, 1893.  A great issue for framing and displaying! The full front page is a color illustration of "The Entrance to Machinery Hall, World's Columbian Exposition". The back page features a full page color print "Idaho State Building, World's Columbian Exposition".   Three tiny binding holes at the... See More