Brown Backgrounds (T207) – 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.)
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A window into the past: Brown Backgrounds (T207), preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Brown Backgrounds (T207)
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The "Brown Backgrounds" label is the Library's own, assigned because the card itself carries no title, and it singles out the brown-background variants within the T207 tobacco set. American Tobacco Company inserted these cards into its cigarette packs around 1911 and 1912, when the company used baseball players as a popular lure for buyers. The set's background colors differ from card to card, so collectors sort the issue by hue as well as by player. This example is one of the color relief halftone prints in the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection of baseball cards.
| 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 | 3,751 × 4,681 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220596 |
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