1869 Harpers full paper with Cincinnati Red Stockings Team image and more
 

I recently picked up this really great item with images of baseball’s first ever professional baseball team; the Cincinnati Red Stockings with great images of baseball HOF pioneers, George and Harry Wright.

Love the “picked 9” story as well - “Hurrah for Pokopolitans!” (Whatever that means 🤣)

I had another of these in similar condition recently and it sold quickly for $1299. I am asking the same in cash and also open to trades of vintage baseball cards as well.

Thanks for taking a look -

Jeff

Thirty years after Cincinnati's 1788 founding, Elisha Mills established the first modern meat-packing plant in the city. His barrels of brine-filled pork contributed to a powerful national appetite for salt pork and started an industry that earned the city its nickname, Porkoplis, by the 1830s. - WCPO Story

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Why was Cincinnati called Porkopolis?

Steamboats were repaired and built in the city. It became a meatpacking center, where livestock was slaughtered and butchered and sold in Cincinnati or shipped. Cincinnati became known as the "Porkopolis" when it became the pork-processing center of the country.
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History of Cincinnati - Wikipedia

Thx for sharing… Hurrah!

Nice image. As an FYI- if not aware you can find the checklist for Harper’s Woodcuts in The Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards Volume I by Lew Lipset. This would be number 6 of the 32 listed.

As an addition to your FYI, VCBC had an updated list in an issue, and there are others not mentioned in either list :

Date Page # Description VCBC
15-Oct-59 664 / 665 A BB Match at The Elysian Fields, Hoboken 1
23-Mar-61 cover Abner Doubleday is in a picture of soldiers at Ft Sumter 2
18-Nov-65 733 BB Match between Athletics and Atlantics 3
25-Nov-65 741 Champion Nine Atlantic BBC of Brooklyn 4
03-Nov-66 697 Brooklyn Atlantics vs Phil. Athletics / Champ 9 of Atlantic BBC 5
08-Dec-66 775 Base-ball Illustrated (cartoons) x
03-Aug-67 488-489 The College Regatta and Ball Match at Worcester, MA 7-19-1867 x
26-Oct-67 684 Champion Nine - Union Club - Morrisania NY (1/2 page) 6
16-May-68 cover George Sands - cover 7
12-Sep-68 587 The National Game (cartoon) x
03-Jul-69 421 Picked Nine of Red Stocking Club of Cincinnati Ohio (1/2 page) 8
24-Jul-69 477 Presentation Of Championship Bat to Red Stockings 9
02-Jul-70 424 / 425 BB match between Red Stockings and Atlantics (1/2 page) 10
27-Jun-74 536 International Baseball - The Boston Champions 11
25-Jul-74 624 International Baseball - The Philladelphia Athletics 12
05-Sep-74 733 Base-Ball in England Red Stocking vs Athletics 13
12-Sep-74 756 Match of Red Stockings and Athletics 15
12-Sep-74 761 Maple Leaf BBC 14
03-Oct-74 819 The Great Game of Political Baseball - Tally 1 for Maine (cartoon) x
27-Jul-78 588 BB at Blackville - 1st blood for Black Legs (cartoon) 16
14-May-81 320 Princeton College BB Nine 17
05-Aug-82 493 The Metropolitan Nine (1/2 page) 18
30-Sep-82 621 The Providence BBC 19
14-Oct-82 652 The Chicago BBC 20
14-Apr-83 240 Another field of American Industry invaded by the Chinese x
12-May-83 292 The New BB Grounds at Chicago 21
09-Jun-83 364 Baseball of the Future 22
13-Oct-83 653 BB Champions of 1883 / Boston BBC 23 / 24
26-Jan-84 64 Base-Ball on Skates, Washington Park, Brooklyn x
19-Jul-84 471 A Base-Ball Episode (cartoon) x
02-May-85 279 A Sound Base-ist (cartoon - somewhat baseball related) x
16-May-85 312 Champion BB Players (early all-star team?) 25
06-Jun-85 359 A Moment of Excitement (cartoon) x
22-Aug-85 549 The Winning Run, How is it Umpire? (Chi vs NY) 26
17-Oct-85 684 Chicago BBC w/Anson & Kelly (1/2 page) 27
08-May-86 300 A Double Play- First League Game (NY vs Bos) 28
15-May-86 309 New Metropolitan BB Grounds on Staten Island (1/2 page) 29
02-Apr-87 243 A New Lucrative Profession Discovered (cartoon) x
21-May-87 372 Well Grounded (cartoon) x
28-May-87 389 A Spring Auction in Rural PA - A Game Of Ball (cartoon) x
04-Jun-87 411 Off His Base (cartoon) x
03-Sep-87 639 The National Game (cartoon) x
10-Sep-87 648 / 649 Thrown Out At Second (very dramatic action) (dbl page) 30
29-Oct-87 787 Impressions Of Our Base-Ball Artist (cartoon) x
29-Oct-87 791 A Bad Defeat (cartoon) x
26-Nov-87 859 A Base-Ball Game on the Haight Street Grounds - SF x
23-Jun-88 455 The Base-ball Championship Cup 31
28-Jul-88 cover A Ball or a Strike, Which? (cover) (fantastic scene) 32
15-Sep-88 699 The Ruling Passion (cartoon) x
13-Oct-88 783 A Matter of Environment (cartoon) x
20-Oct-88 793 Winning Battery of NY Team (1/2 pg) Keefe & Ewing (both HOF) 33
27-Oct-88 820 2 Popular St Louis Players (1/2 page) (Comiskey & Latham) 34
12-Jan-89 cover Farmer Stebbins at the Bat (cover) x
27-Apr-89 328 The 1st League Game of Base-Ball of the Season 35
08-Jun-89 464 Injured (cartoon) x
22-Jun-89 508 The National Game ( comic ) 36
31-Aug-89 704 / 705 A Collegiate Game of BB (dbl page) 37
12-Oct-89 820 In a time to come (cartoon) x
19-Oct-89 838 Nota Bene, Boston (cartoon) x
09-Nov-89 cover William 'Buck' Ewing - Captain of NY Club (cover) 38
08-Mar-90 185 A game of BB in the 13th Armory, Brooklyn 39
03-May-90 353 - 356 Opening of 1890 BB Season (2 pages, both sides) 40
30-Aug-90 687 A Strictly Amateur Nine (cartoon) x
18-Apr-91 287 The Social Ball Rolls Out as the National Game Comes In x
13-Jun-91 448 Princeton and Yale Team Pix x
26-Sep-91 720 Manhattan Athletic Club Grounds 41
10-Oct-91 786 "No Muff this time" - Boston Championship 1891 x
07-Jul-94 645 College BB player pix x

Bump for much lower price - asking $800 delivered for this Harpers Weekly.

Thx

Jeff

Wow some really interesting stuff and history

GLWS

Thx Jeff! I have toyed with keeping and framing this… but I am trying to build up funds for another card purchase.

Thx again!