W.S. Kimball Champions (N184) – Vintage 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
This rare antique lithograph captures W.S. Kimball Champions (N184) in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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W.S. Kimball Champions (N184)
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Issued in 1888 by W.S. Kimball, the Rochester, New York tobacco firm, this card belongs to a series titled *Champions*. Kimball tucked cards like this into cigarette packages to attract buyers and encourage loyalty to its brands. It was printed as a chromolithograph, a multistep color process that let manufacturers reproduce bright uniforms and lettering far more cheaply than hand painting. Today collectors value these cards both as early baseball imagery and as examples of 1880s advertising art.
| 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: W.S. Kimball Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,791 × 4,686 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220566 |
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