On the Fly baseball tobacco advertisement chromolithograph – Historic Print
(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 On the Fly baseball tobacco advertisement chromolithograph in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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On the Fly baseball tobacco advertisement chromolithograph
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Its title, *On the Fly*, points to a ball caught or thrown on the run, a moment of action that advertisers of the period liked to freeze in bright color. Chromolithographs like this were printed from multiple color stones and used as trade cards and pictorial inserts, and tobacco makers in the 1880s and 1890s often packed baseball scenes into their products and promotions. Boston's club was among the founding members of the National League in 1876, so the city's teams were a natural subject for this kind of commercial art, which borrowed the energy of the growing professional game to sell a product.
| Original scan | 1,600 × 879 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 7 |
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