Goodwin Champions (N162) – 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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Goodwin Champions (N162) in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Goodwin Champions (N162)
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The "Goodwin Champions" title was assigned by Library staff, so the card itself is catalogued under the number N162 from the tobacco-card series. Goodwin & Company, the New York tobacco firm behind Old Judge cigarettes, inserted these chromolithographed cards into its packs in the late 1880s to build brand loyalty among smokers. Sets like this one often mixed baseball players with champions from boxing, rowing, and other sports, which made the cards popular with collectors of every kind. Today the cards are valued as some of the earliest mass-produced American sports images, showing how advertising and popular sport grew together in the 1880s.
| 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: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,796 × 4,775 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220476 |
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