Allen & Ginter World's Champions (N29) – Antique 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
Allen & Ginter World's Champions (N29) comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Allen & Ginter World's Champions (N29)
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This chromolithograph is a card from the 1888 Allen & Ginter World's Champions series (N29), and its caption names a player only as "Getzin," which is the detail that sets it apart from other baseball cards on the board. Allen & Ginter, a Richmond, Virginia tobacco firm, packed cards like this into cigarette packages as a collectible inducement, and the World's Champions set honored sports champions rather than baseball players alone. The color lithography, printed in many inks, was a common method for cheap mass-produced advertising of the 1880s. Its small size and bright colors show how quickly trading cards became a popular way for American firms to reach buyers.
| 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: Allen & Ginter Company. Getzin"- -caption on card. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,826 × 4,706 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220523 |
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