Mayo's Cut Plug (N300) – 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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Step back in time with Mayo's Cut Plug (N300), a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mayo's Cut Plug (N300)
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Mayo's Cut Plug, a chewing tobacco sold by the Mayo Tobacco Works of Richmond, Virginia, is the brand named on this 1895 card. In the 1880s and 1890s, tobacco makers packed baseball cards into their products or offered them as premiums, and N300 is the number later assigned to this issue in the American Card Catalog. The card bears a caption reading "Russie," but it has no printed title, so Library staff devised the one used here. It belongs to the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection of baseball cards in the Prints and Photographs Division.
| Created / published | 1895 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : haltone and stencil. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1890-1900.Halftone photomechanical prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Mayo Tobacco Works. Russie"- -caption on card. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,811 × 4,701 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220522 |
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