Turkey Red Cabinets (T3) – Historic Print
(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: Turkey Red Cabinets (T3), preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Turkey Red Cabinets (T3)
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Unlike the small pocket-size tobacco cards of the era, these Turkey Red cabinets were larger, sturdier pieces, named for the cigarette brand in whose packages they were sold. The American Tobacco Company issued them in 1911 as part of its effort to attract buyers with collectible baseball images. Each card is a chromolithograph, a multicolor printing process, with hand-applied color added over the printed design. The card is preserved in the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection, which documents how tobacco companies used baseball illustrations to build loyalty in the early 1910s.
| Created / published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph with hand-color. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1910-1920.Chromolithographs 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 | 3,791 × 4,701 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220582 |
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