Great on Buffalo Bill, plus good baseball content also...
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May 07, 1881
THE NEW YORK CLIPPER, May 7, 1881.
* Edwin Booth
* Lengthy baseball reporting
* Buffalo Bill
The front page has an engraving of Edwin Booth along with Henry Irving, with biographical sketches of both as well.
An inside page has over two columns of detailed reporting on "Baseball" (see for portions) with another page having 3 more cols. on baseball.
Another page has a great half column headed "Buffalo Bill" which begins:
* There are few more widely-known names in the United States at the present time than that of the Hon. William F. Cody, alias Buffalo Bill...
with much more on his life (see).
Another page has an advertisement for his show (see).
Another page has a print headed: "Negro Minstrelsy" (see). Various baseball-related ads as well.
Decorative masthead, 16 pages, very nice condition.
* Edwin Booth
* Lengthy baseball reporting
* Buffalo Bill
The front page has an engraving of Edwin Booth along with Henry Irving, with biographical sketches of both as well.
An inside page has over two columns of detailed reporting on "Baseball" (see for portions) with another page having 3 more cols. on baseball.
Another page has a great half column headed "Buffalo Bill" which begins:
* There are few more widely-known names in the United States at the present time than that of the Hon. William F. Cody, alias Buffalo Bill...
with much more on his life (see).
Another page has an advertisement for his show (see).
Another page has a print headed: "Negro Minstrelsy" (see). Various baseball-related ads as well.
Decorative masthead, 16 pages, very nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
