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Title
Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards collection
Type
Still Image
Collection
Subject
Baseball players--United States--1880-1920 (LCTGM)
Baseball players--Canada--1880-1920 (LCTGM)
Baseball managers--United States--1880-1920 (LCTGM)
Baseball--United States--1880-1920 (LCTGM)
Baseball--Canada--1880-1920 (LCTGM)
Portrait photographs--1880-1920 (GMGPC)
Portrait prints--1880-1920 (GMGPC)
Group portraits--1880-1920 (GMGPC)
Baseball cards--1880-1920 (GMGPC)
Cigarette cards--1880-1920 (GMGPC)
Photographic prints--1880-1920 (GMGPC)
Halftone photomechanical prints--1880-1920 (GMGPC)
Chromolithographs--1880-1920 (GMGPC)
Genre Form
graphic
Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: LOT 13163 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Content
still image (sti)
Note
related note: Forms part of: Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.
Summary
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.
Table Of Contents
Authorized Access Point
Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards collection
Collection Arrangement
Collection Organization: Organized by issue date and publisher into thirty-six subdivisions representing published card sets (LOT 13163-1 through LOT 13163-36)