O'Brien, Boston American League baseball tobacco card – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of O'Brien, Boston American League baseball tobacco card. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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O'Brien, Boston American League baseball tobacco card
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This card honors a player named O'Brien who wore a Boston American League uniform, and it shows the small format tobacco companies used to promote their brands in the early 1900s. Cards like this were tucked into cigarette and tobacco packs as stiffeners and then collected, so many survived as a record of players of the day. Boston's American League club was then known as the Americans, and it took on the Red Sox name in 1908. Collectors still value these cards for their simple portraits and the glimpse they give of the game before modern photography and printing took over.
| Original scan | 1,636 × 3,000 px · prints to 5 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3 |
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