Old Judge Cabinets (N173) – Antique 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.)
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Old Judge Cabinets (N173) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Old Judge Cabinets (N173)
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Goodwin & Company, a New York tobacco firm, issued this card in its Old Judge cigarette line, and the N173 designation marks it as one of the series that collectors later catalogued by the American Card Catalog. In the late 1880s, cigarette makers tucked photographs of ballplayers and other celebrities into their packs to build brand loyalty, and this one follows that practice. The image is an albumen print, a process that binds silver to paper with egg white and was standard for photographs of this period. The cabinet-card mount, a larger format than the small cards of earlier decades, shows how the photographic trade and the tobacco trade overlapped in the era.
| Created / published | 1888-1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on cabinet card mount : albumen. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1880-1890.Albumen prints 1880-1890.Cabinet photographs 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 935 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165312 |
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