Chicago's US champions – Historic Print
![Chicago's US champions, Chicago : J.S. Thompson & Co. Printing, Times Building, 88 Fifth Avenue, [1876?] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9d/9de760de0bc2-L.webp)
(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 Chicago's US champions, a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Chicago's US champions
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Chicago's baseball club is the subject of this color lithograph poster, which proclaims the city's team as national champions. The record dates it only tentatively to about 1876, the year the Chicago White Stockings won the first National League pennant. The printer, J.S. Thompson & Co., operated from the Times Building on Fifth Avenue in Chicago. Posters like this one were part of how the city promoted its teams and its rising reputation in the 1870s.
| Created / published | Chicago : J.S. Thompson & Co. Printing, Times Building, 88 Fifth Avenue, [1876?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 71 x 101 cm. |
| Genre | Sport posters American 1870-1890.Lithographs Color 1870-1890. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | Baseball players--Illinois--Chicago--1870-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,039 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172530 |
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