Brown Backgrounds (T207) – Antique 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
Few images capture their era like this historic print of Brown Backgrounds (T207). It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Brown Backgrounds (T207)
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The brown background is what sets this card apart within its set. It is one of several color variants in the T207 series, which the American Tobacco Company packed with its cigarettes as a premium inside each pack. Collectors came to call these small cardboard portraits "tobacco cards," and they were among the earliest mass-produced baseball cards. The Library of Congress dates this example to 1912, and it belongs to the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection of baseball cards, a body of material that shows how the game was marketed to fans in the years before World War I.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : relief with halftone, color. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1910-1920.Relief prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,845 × 4,769 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220547 |
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