American Tobacco Company, publisher still image graphic still image Portrait photographs-1880-1920. Portrait prints-1880-1920. Group portraits-1880-1920. Baseball cards-1880-1920. Cigarette cards-1880-1920. Photographic prints-1880-1920. Halftone photomechanical prints-1880-1920. Chromolithographs-1880-1920. xxu 1887 1914 monographic 1887-1914, bulk 1887-1912 eng

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ca. 2,100 items (chiefly color photomechanical prints). Organized by issue date and publisher into thirty-six subdivisions representing published card sets (LOT 13163-1 through LOT 13163-36). Cards depict major and minor league ballplayers (in portraits and action poses), from teams in fifteen identified leagues and seventy-five cities in the United States and Canada. Includes U.S. major league teams from Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. Minor league teams from the cities of Birmingham, Little Rock, Memphis, Norfolk, Oakland, Providence, Richmond, Shreveport, and Toledo are also represented, as well as Canadian teams from Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria. Stars from the major leagues account for more than three-quarters of the images with such notables as Cap Anson, Dan Brouthers, Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins, Ed Delahanty, Buck Ewing, Walter Johnson, King Kelly, Christy Mathewson, Joe McGinnity, Rube Waddell, Smoky Joe Wood, and Cy Young. The LOT also includes cards depicting managers of U.S. major and minor league teams, including among others, Connie Mack, John McGraw, and Charles Comiskey. Restricted access: Please use the online digital images. Materials in LOT 13163 (Locked) are extremely fragile and cannot be served. A small selection has been made available in LOT 13163 (H) that can be served by appointment. The material requires special handling. For more information, see: Materials Designated "Served by Appointment Only (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.info.apptonly)" No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "Baseball cards ...," LOT title devised by Library staff. LOT includes thirty-six card sets issued by fourteen publishers. The American Tobacco Company is most heavily represented with over 1,400 cards. Formats include: 536 photographic prints (albumen and gelatin silver); 261 halftone photomechanical prints; 1,303 chromolithographs (95 hand colored). Most cards measure ca. 2.6 x ca. 1.5 in. The following larger card formats are also included: Turkey Red Cabinets (T3), ca. 8 x 5.75 in.; Old Judge Cabinets (N173), ca. 6.5 x 4.25 in.; Kalamazoo Bats (N690), ca. 4 x 2.25 in.; Allen & Ginter World's Champions (N43), ca. 3.25 x 2.8 in.; Mecca Double Folders (T201), ca. 4.6 x 2.25 in.; and Hassan Triple Folders (T202), ca. 2.25 x 5.5 in. Digitized images of baseball cards (both fronts and backs) along with their associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog. Digitized images are also available through the Library of Congress Web site under title: Baseball Cards, 1887-1914. This finding aid in electronic form with captions, and subject indexing for each image, was produced in 1998 for the National Digital Library Program, American Memory collections. Gift; Carl Sandburg; 1954. Baseball cards were first issued by tobacco companies in the 1880s for distribution in cigarette packages. They served to promote sales and provide advertising. Benjamin K. Edwards collected and preserved the baseball cards in albums with more than 12,000 other cigarette cards on various subjects. After his death, Edwards' daughter Elizabeth Erickson gave the albums to the poet Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division in 1954. Finding aid is available online https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp023002 Forms part of: Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. n-us--- Baseball players United States 1880-1920 Baseball players Canada 1880-1920 Baseball managers United States 1880-1920 Baseball United States 1880-1920 Baseball Canada 1880-1920 LOT 13163 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp023002 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp023002.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.bbc http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html 2022886622 2001696352 hdl:loc.pnp/pp.bbc https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp023002 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp023002.3 aacr gihc DLC 010205 20250606184548.6 12299517 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)