The first nine of the Red Stockings, manufactured from the best Havana tobacco by Henry Koop, 315 Central Avenue bet. 8th and 9th Str. Cincinnati, O. / Tuchfarber, Walkley, and Moellmann, Lith., NW cor. Court & Main St., Cin. O. – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The first nine of the Red Stockings, manufactured from the best Havana tobacco by Henry Koop, 315 Central Avenue bet. 8th and 9th Str. Cincinnati, O. / Tuchfarber, Walkley, and Moellmann, Lith., NW cor. Court & Main St., Cin. O., preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The first nine of the Red Stockings, manufactured from the best Havana tobacco by Henry Koop, 315 Central Avenue bet. 8th and 9th Str. Cincinnati, O. / Tuchfarber, Walkley, and Moellmann, Lith., NW cor. Court & Main St., Cin. O.
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This 1869 lithograph is less a portrait of a ballclub than an advertisement for a cigar. Its title names Henry Koop's Central Avenue shop in Cincinnati, and the nine players are presented as a selling point for his "Red Stockings" brand. The team was the first openly all-professional club, and it went the entire 1869 season without a loss, so the cigar makers borrowed its fame. The image was printed by the Cincinnati lithographers Tuchfarber, Walkley, and Moellmann, a firm that produced many commercial prints of the period.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,558 × 5,408 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4 |
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