Gold Borders (T205) – 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: Gold Borders (T205), preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gold Borders (T205)
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The gold border that gives this card its name sets it apart from the plainer tobacco cards of its era. The American Tobacco Company issued it in 1911 as one of the many baseball cards packed with its cigarettes, where the stiff cardboard protected the cigarettes and gave buyers a reason to collect. The set ran to hundreds of players, and the gold frame makes these cards stand out among the other tobacco issues of the 1910s. The Library's record notes that the title was devised by staff, and the card is part of the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection of baseball cards.
| 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 | 3,791 × 4,667 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220627 |
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