Gold Borders (T205) – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Gold Borders (T205). Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gold Borders (T205)
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Framed in a gold border, this card is one of the American Tobacco Company's 1911 T205 series, which took its nickname from that bright edging. Cards like this were packed inside cigarette packages, where they stiffened the box and gave smokers a collectible reason to buy the brand. The result is a small, durable record of the players and styles of the 1911 season, when baseball was becoming a mass-market entertainment. Its place in the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection makes it useful for studying how early tobacco cards were designed and how they were used.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1910-1920.Photomechanical prints 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 | 3,737 × 4,657 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221680 |
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