Brown Backgrounds (T207) – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Brown Backgrounds (T207), preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Brown Backgrounds (T207)
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The brown backgrounds set apart this card from the bright, colorful designs that were common in the period. It belongs to the T207 series, issued by the American Tobacco Company and dated 1912 in its record. Like many cards of the era, it was packed with the company's cigarettes, a marketing practice that put baseball images into the hands of ordinary buyers. Today collectors and researchers value the series for its range of players and for its printing, which combined relief and halftone reproduction in color.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : relief with halftone, color. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1910-1920.Relief prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,771 × 4,696 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220597 |
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