Washington Base Ball Club – Historic Print
(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.)
Description
Step back in time with Washington Base Ball Club, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Washington Base Ball Club
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Unlike the standard player portrait, this item presents the whole Washington Base Ball Club as a single cigarette card, a format that suggests how eagerly 1880s tobacco makers used baseball to sell their products. Goodwin & Co. of New York printed it as an advertisement for Old Judge cigarettes and registered the copyright in 1887. Cards like this were tucked into cigarette packs, and collectors saved them, which is why so many of these images survive today. The card offers a useful look at how a city's team was presented to the public during the years when professional baseball was becoming a major national pastime.
| Created / published | New York : Goodwin & Co., c1887 June 28. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Cigarette cards 1880-1890.Advertisements 1880-1890.Portrait photographs 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | S16698 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1887, by Goodwin & Co., New York. Cigarette cards for Old Judge cigarettes. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Baseball players--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,168 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130650 |
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