White Borders (T206) – 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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White Borders (T206) comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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White Borders (T206)
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The white border is what sets this card apart from its neighbors in the T206 series, which the American Tobacco Company issued between 1909 and 1911. Its color lithographed portrait sits inside a plain white frame, a format that let collectors tell the cards apart at a glance. Cards like this were tucked into cigarette packs as an inducement to buy, and the Library catalogs this example, printed by relief with halftone, as part of the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection of baseball cards. Its surviving form shows how commercial advertising of the period doubled as an early record of the players and the sport.
| Created / published | 1909-1911. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : relief with halftone, color. |
| Genre | Baseball cards 1900-1920.Relief prints Color 1900-1920. |
| 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 | 3,776 × 4,769 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220572 |
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