Baseball cards, 1887-1914
Library of Congress.
Prints and Photographs Division.
Library of Congress.
National Digital Library Program.
software, multimedia
computer program
dcu
1998
9999
monographic
Washington, D.C.]
Library of Congress
[1998-]
eng
Presents 2,100 early baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. Dating from 1887 to 1914 and issued as black-and-white photographs or color prints, these forerunners to sports trading cards were distributed in cigarette packs. More than 1,000 major and minor league ballplayers, from teams in thirteen leagues and seventy-five cities in the United States and Canada, are represented. Features legendary figures such as Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, and Cy Young. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Title from home page viewed on Oct. 19, 1998.
System requirements: World Wide Web (WWW) browser software.
Mode of access: Internet.
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Baseball cards
Baseball players
United States
Baseball players
Canada
GV875.3
796.357
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html
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aacr
DLC
981113
20250607174942.3
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