W.S. Kimball Champions (N184) – 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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This antique lithograph of W.S. Kimball Champions (N184) brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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W.S. Kimball Champions (N184)
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Issued by W.S. Kimball, the Rochester, New York, tobacco firm, this 1888 chromolithograph belongs to the Champions series catalogued as N184. Cards like it were inserted into cigarette packs as premiums, and their bright color printing helped sell both the tobacco and the collectible. The card is part of the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection at the Library of Congress, which preserves how early baseball players were presented to the public. Because the record does not name the figure shown, the card is best read as a document of late-nineteenth-century advertising as much as a portrait of one player.
| Created / published | 1888 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1880-1890.Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: W.S. Kimball Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,816 × 4,686 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220524 |
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