Baseball Card Photographs CD, 1887 - 1914

Over 3,000+ high resolution baseball card photographs from 1887 - 1914 on CD-Rom! This collection represents more than one thousand major and minor league ballplayers (primarily major league), from teams in thirteen identified leagues and seventy-five cities in the United States and Canada dating from 1887 to 1914. This one-of-a-kind collectible is an extremely rare find and a highly sought after memorabilia item. All pictures on the CD are of extreme detail and categorized accordingly so you can easily find what you're looking for!

These vintage baseball card photos are a true work of art and the finest photographic collection available on baseball history in the United States. All pictures are fully printable from the CD and are suitable for framing! They are all scans from the authentic originals from over one century ago and are of the highest quality.

The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland uniform. Other notable players include Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, King Kelly, and Christy Mathewson. Here are some sample thumbnails taken from the collection. There is one card from each set depicted in the collage below. All images are much larger and much higher quality on the CD! There are also pictures of the backs of the cards, team photographs, and numerous other baseball related memorabilia items!

This collection is often referred to as the "Benjamin K. Edwards" collection, the original collector of the majority of these baseball cards. Here is a brief description below of what the Library of Congress has to say about this collection...

• This collection presents a Library of Congress treasure of early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland uniform. Other notable players include Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, King Kelly, and Christy Mathewson.

• Originally distributed in cigarette packs, these cards were the forerunners of modern sports trading cards. They portray such legendary figures of the game as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing in his Cleveland uniform. Although many of the greatest players from the first decades of professional baseball are represented, the collection does not include individual cards for either Honus Wagner or Babe Ruth.

• Baseball cards were first issued during the 1880s when tobacco companies used them to promote sales. Although they also served to stiffen soft cigarette packages, advertising was their primary function, for as early as 1887 cards and cigarettes were packed in more rigid "slide and shell" boxes which had no need for reinforcement. Although the cards vary in design and format, most are 2 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches, much smaller than today's trading cards. Two exceptions are the large format sets of Turkey Red Cabinets and Old Judge Cabinets, produced as premiums in exchange for coupons distributed in cigarette packs. Issued either as black-and-white photographs or color prints, the cards portray ballplayers both in action scenes and formal poses.

• More than one thousand major and minor league ballplayers, from teams in thirteen identified leagues and seventy-five cities in the United States and Canada, are represented in the collection. They include celebrated stars playing for storied major league clubs in Boston, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis, along with more obscure minor leaguers performing in Birmingham, Little Rock, Memphis, Norfolk, Oakland, Providence, Richmond, Shreveport, Toledo, and elsewhere. Canadian cities represented include Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria.

• Major leaguers account for more than three-quarters of the images in the collection. Great pitchers from the period include Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Smoky Joe Wood, Chief Bender, Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Rube Marquard, and Rube Waddell, among others. Hall of Fame field players include King Kelly, Cap Anson, Home Run Baker, Dan Brouthers, Ed Delahanty, Eddie Collins, Buck Ewing, Wee Willie Keeler, Napoleon Lajoie, and Zack Wheat. Researchers may also find notable player partnerships, such as the immortal Cubs infield trio of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance or the talented Red Sox outfield comprised of Tris Speaker, Duffy Lewis, and Harry Hooper. Connie Mack, John McGraw, and Charles Comiskey are among the game's outstanding early managers depicted.

• Apart from the wealth of baseball lore and history the Edwards Collection represents, it also provides a rich resource for the study of commercial advertising and printing processes from the period. The earliest cards were issued either as straightforward black-and-white photographs or color lithographs mounted on stiff cards. Reproductive printing techniques advanced rapidly in the 1890s, however, and most cards produced after the turn of the century were created by combining relief-printed color with a black-and-white halftone image.

• Cigarette card collector Benjamin K. Edwards preserved these baseball cards in albums with more than 12,000 other cards on many subjects, including actors and actresses, United States presidents, bathing beauties, military subjects, automobiles and airplanes, flags and flowers, and the comic pranks of young boys. Edwards appreciated the colorful cards for their popular appeal, advertising ingenuity, and historical value: "To the true collector the difficulty of finding old American cards is most inviting, and along with the sport thereof is the interest of research work and the insight as to the living and thinking of our people a half century ago." After his death, Edwards" daughter Elizabeth Erickson gave the albums to noted poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division in 1954."

Some of the players in this set include...

Abbaticchio, Ed Abbott, Fred Abstein, Bill Abstein, William Adams, Bert Adkins, Doc Agnew Ainsmith, Eddie Akin Albert Alcott, C. Allen, Bob Almeida, Rafael Alperman, Whitey Ames Ames, Red Anderson, John Andrews, Ed Andrews, Wally Annis Anson, Adrian C. (Cap) Archer, Jimmy (James) Arellanes, Frank Armbruster, Herman Armstrong Arndt, Harry Arundel, Tug Atz, Jake Austin, Jimmy (James) Bailey, Bill Bakely, Jersey Baker, Frank Baker, Harry Baldwin, Lady Baldwin, Mark Ball, Jim Ball, Neal Bancroft, Frank C. Barbeau, Jap Barger Barger, Eros (Cy) Barkley, Sam Barnes, John Barnie, Billy Barrett, James E. Barry, Jack Barry, Shad Bassett, Charley Bassey Bastian, Jack Batch, Emil Batch, Heinie Bates, Johnny Baum Bauman, Paddy Bay, Harry Beatin, Eb Beatty Beaumont, Ginger Beck, Fred Becker, Beals Beckley, Jack Beckley, Jake Beebe, Fred Bell, George Bender, Chief Bennett Bennett, Charlie W. Benz, Joe Bergen, Bill Berger, Heinie Bernhard, Bill Berry Bescher, Bob Bierbauer, Lou Birmingham, Joe Bishop, Bill Blackburne, Lena Blair, Walter Blanding, Fred Blankenship, Cliff Bligh, Ned Bliss, Jack Block, Bruno Boardman Bodie Bodie, Ping Bonner Booles Bourquise Bowerman, Frank Boyle, Handsome Henry Boyle, Henry Boyle, Jack Brackenridge Bradley, Bill Bradley, Hugh Brain, Dave Bransfield, Kitty Brashear Brashear, R. Breen Breitenstein, Ted Bresnahan, Roger Bridwell, Al Briggs Brinker Brooks Broughton Brouthers, Dan Brown, Boardwalk Brown, D. Brown, Mordecai (Minor) Brown, Three Finger Brown, Tom Brown, Willard Browne, George Browning Browning, Pete Brynan, Charlie Buckley, Dick Buffinton, Charlie Burch, Al Burch, Ernie Burchell, Fred Burdock, Jack Burke, Jimmy Burkett, Jesse C. Burnham, Watch Burns, Bill Burns, Jim Burns, Oyster Burns, Thomas Bush, Donie Bush, Joe Bushelman, Jack Bushong, Doc Butcher, Hank Butler, John Butler, John A. Byrd Byrne, Bobby Cabrol Cady, Hick Cahill, John Callahan, Nixey Cameron Camnitz, Howie Campau, Count Campbell, Billy Carey, Max Carey, Scoops Carpenter, Hick Carr, Charley Carrigan, Bill Carroll Carroll, Cliff Carroll, Fred Caruthers, Bob Casey Casey, Dan Casey, Doc Cassidy, Peter Castleton Chalmers, George Chamberlain, Icebox Chance, Frank Chappelle, Bill Charles, Chappy Chase, Hal Chenault Chesbro, Jack Childs, Cupid Christian Cicotte, Eddie Clancey, Bill Clark Clark, Spider Clarke, Dad Clarke, Fred Clarke, Josh Clarke, Nig Clarke, Tommy Clarkson, John Clements, Jack Cleveland, Elmer Clymer, Bill Cobb, Ty Cole, King Coleman Coleman, John Coles, Cad Collins, Eddie Collins, Hugh Collins, Jim Collins, Jimmy Collins, John Comiskey, Charlie Congalton, Bunk Connor, Roger Conroy, Wid Conway, Dick Conway, Pete Cook, Paul Coombs, Jack Corcoran, Larry Corkhill, Pop Corridon, Frank Cote Coulson, Bob Coveleski, Harry Covington, Tex Cowell Coy Crandall, Doc Crane, Cannonball Crane, Sam Cranston, Bill Cravath, Gavvy Crawford, Sam Cree, Birdie Criger Criger, Lou Criss, Dode Cross, Monte Cunningham, Bill Cutshaw Dahlen, Bill Daily, Ed Daley Dalrymple, Abner Daly, Sun Daly, Tom Danforth, Dave Daniels, Bert Daniels, Law Danzig Darling, Dell Daubert, Jake Davidson, Paul Davis Davis, George Davis, Harry Davis, Jumbo Dealey, Pat Deasley, Pat Decker, Harry Delahanty, Ed Delahanty, F. Delahanty, Jim Delmas Demmitt, Ray Denny, Jerry Derrick, Claud Dessau, Rube Devlin, Art Devlin, Jim Devore, Josh Dickson, Walt Dinneen, Bill Dolan, Tom Donahue, Jiggs Donahue, Jim Donlin, Mike Donnelley, Jim Donnelly, Ed Donnelly, Jim Donovan, Wild Bill Dooin, Red Doolan, Mickey Dorgan, Mike Dorner, Gus Dougherty, Patsy Downey, Tom Downie, Thomas Downs, Jerry Doyle, Larry Drake, Delos Dretchko Dubuc, Jean Duffee, Charlie Duffy, Hugh Dugey Dunlap, Fred Dunn, Jack Dunn, Joe Durham, Bull Dwyer, Frank Dygert, James H. Dygert, Jimmy Easterly, Ted Eastley Egan, Dick Ehret, Red Elberfeld, Kid Ellam, Roy Ellis, Rube Emmerke, R. Engle, Clyde Erwin, Tex Esterbrook, Dude Evans, Steve Evers, Johnny Ewing, Bob Ewing, Buck Falkenberg, Cy Fansing Farrar, Sid Farrell, Duke Farrell, Jack Fennelly, Frank Ferguson, Charlie Ferguson, George Ferris, Hobe Ferry, Jack Ferson, Alex Fields, Jocko Fiene, Lou Fisher Fisher, Ray Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick, Edward Flanagan, Steamer Fletcher, Art Flick, Elmer Flint, Silver Flood Flynn, John Fogarty, Jim Ford, Russ Forster, Tom Foster, Ed Foster, Edward C. Fournier Fournier, Jack Foutz, Dave Foxen Foxen, Bill Freeman, Jerry Frick, Jimmy Frill, John Frisk Fritz, Charlie Fromme, Art Fuller, Shorty Fuller, William Gaddy Gaffney, John Gainer, Del Galvin, Pud Gandil, Chick Ganley, Bob Ganzel, Charlie Ganzel, John Gardner, Earl Gardner, Larry Garrett Gaspar, Harry Geiss, Emil George, Bill George, Lefty Gessler, Doc Getzien, Charlie Geyer, Rube Gibson, George Gilbert, Billy Gilks, Bobby Gillespie, Pete Gilligan, Barney Gilmore Glasscock, Jack Gleason, Bill Gleason, Kid Glenn, Mouse Golden, Roy Good, Wilbur Goodfellow, Mike Gore, George Gowdy, Hank Graham, Bill Graham, Peaches Graney, Jack Grant, Eddie Gray, Dolly Gregg, Vean Greggs Greminger, Ed Griffin Griffin, Mike Griffith Griffith, Clark Grimshaw, Moose Groom, Bob Gruber, Henry Guiheen, Tom Gunning, Tom Guyn Hageman, Casey Hahn, Ed Hall Hall, Bob Hall, Charley Hallinan, Ed Hallman, Bill Hamilton, Billy Hamilton, Earl Hanford, Charlie Hanlon, Ned Hannifin, Jack Hanrahan, William Hardie Harkins Harkins, John Harmon, Bob Harris Hart Hart, Bill Hart, Jimmy Hartley, Grover Hartman Hartsel, Topsy Hartzell, Roy Hatfield, Gill Hauser, Arnold Hayden, Jack Healey, Egyptian Hecker, Guy Hellman, Tony Helm, Ross Hemphill, Charlie Henderson, Hardie Henley Henriksen, Olaf Henry, John Hensling Herzog, Buck Hetling Hickey Hickman, Charles Hickman, Gordon Hiester Higgins, Bob Hinchman, Bill Hinchman, Harry Hines, Hunkey Hines, Paul Hitt Hoblitzell, Dick Hoff, Red Hoffman Hoffman, Danny Hoffman, Izzy Hofman, Solly Hogan Hogan, Happy Hogan, W. Hollis Holm Hooker, Bock Hooper, Harry Hoover, Charles Hoover, Charlie Householder Houser, Ben Howard Howard, Del Howard, Ernie Howard, George Howell, Harry Hoy, Dummy Hudson, Nat Huggins, Miller Hulswitt, Rudy Hummel, John Hungler Hunt Hunter, George Hyatt, Ham Irwin, Arthur Irwin, John Isbell, Frank Jacklitsch, Fred Jackson, Jimmy James Jennings, Hughie Jenson Jevne, Frederick Johnson Johnson, Otis Johnson, Walter Johnston, Dick Jones, Davy Jones, Fielder Jones, Tom Jordan, A. O. Jordan, Tim Joss, Addie Kahler, George Kahoe, Mike Kargar, Ed Karger, Ed Keefe, Tim Keeler, Willie Keenan, Jim Keener Kelley, Joe Kelly, Bill Kelly, Charlie Kelly, King Kennedy Kennedy, Ted Kerins, John Kiernan, J. F. Killian, E. H. Killian, Ed Kilroy, Matt King, Frank King, Silver Kippert Kirke, Jay Kissinger, Rube Kleinow, Red Kling, Johnny Klopf, August Knabe, Otto Knell, Philip Knetzer, Elmer Knight, John Konetchy, Ed Krapp Krause, Harry Krock, Gus Kroh, Rube Kruegar, Otto Krueger Kuehne, Willie Kuhn Kuhn, Walt Kusel Kutina, Joe Lafitte, James Lajoie, Nap Lake, Joe Lamline Lange, Frank LaPorte, Frank Lapp, Jack Larkin, Henry Latham, Arlie Lattimore, Bill Lauer, Chuck Lavender, Jimmy Lawton Leach, Tommy Lee, Wyatt Leever, Sam Leifield, Lefty Lennox, Ed Lewis Lewis, Duffy Lewis, F. Lewis, Irving Liebhardt, Glenn Lindaman, Vive Lindsay Lipe, Perry Lively Lively, Jack Livingston, Paddy Lobert, Hans Long, Germany Long, Herman Lord, Bris Lord, Harry Lowdermilk, Lou Lowe, Bobby Luderus, Fred Lumley, Harry Lundgren, Carl Lush, Johnny Lyons, Denny Lyons, Harry Mack, Connie Madden, Kid Maddox, Nick Magee, Sherry Maggert Mains, Grasshopper Malarkey, Bill Maloney, Billy Manion, George Mann, Fred Manning, Rube Manush Marquard, Rube Marsans, Armando Marshall, Doc Martinke Maskrey, Leech Mathewson, Christy Mattern, Al Mattimore, Mike Maul, Al McAleer, Jimmy McAleese, John McAllister, Lew McBride, George McCabe, Arthur McCarr, Chippy McCarthy, Alex McCarthy, Tommy McCarty, Lewis McCauley, Pat McClennan McConnell Amby McConnell, Amby McCormick, Jim McCormick, Moose McCredie McDonald, Ed McDowell McElveen, Pryor McGann, Dan McGarr, Chippy McGeachy, Jack McGeehan McGinley, Jim McGinnis, Jumbo McGinnity, Joe McGinnity, Joseph McGlone, John McGlynn, Grant McGlynn, Stoney McGraw, John McGraw, John J. McGuire, Deacon McIntire, Harry McIntyre, Matty McKechnie, Bill McLean, Larry McPhee, Bid McQuillan, George McVey, George Melchior Merkle, Fred Merritt, George Meyers, Chief Milan, Clyde Miller Miller, Doc Miller, Doggie Miller, Dots Miller, Molly Miller, Otto Miller, Ward Milligan, Bill Milligan, Jocko Mitchell, Fred Mitchell, Mike Moeller, Dan Mogridge, George Mohler Molesworth, Carlton Moore, Earl Moran, Herbie Moran, Pat Morgan, Cy Morgan, Ray Moriarty, George Morrill, Honest John Morrill, John Morris, Ed Morrissey, Tom Morse Moser Mowrey, Mike Mullane, Tony Mullaney, Dom Mullin, George Mulvey, Joe Mundoref Mundorff Murnane, Tim H. Murphy Murphy, Danny Murphy, Eddie Murphy, Pat Murray Murray, Miah Murray, Red Mutrie, Jim Myers, Al Myers, George Nagle Nash, Billy Nattress, Billy Nee, John Needham, Tom Nelson Nelson, Red Nicholls, Simon Nichols Nichols, Kid Nicholson Nicholson, J. W. Nicholson, T. C. Nicol, Hugh Niles, Harry Nordyke Northen, Hub Nourse Nunamaker, Les Nyce, Fred Oakes, Rebel Oberlin, Frank O"Brien, Billy O"Brien, Buck O"Brien, Peter O"Day, Hank Odwell, Fred O"Hara, Bill Oldring, Rube O"Leary, Charley Olmstead, Fred Olson Olson, Ivan O"Neal, William J. O"Neill, Tip O"Rourke, Jim O"Rourke, Tom Orr, Bill Orr, Dave Ort Orth, Al Ostdiek Otey, William O"Toole, Marty Overall, Orval Owen, Frank Paige, George Parent, Freddy Paskert, Dode Pastorius, Jim Pattee, Harry Payne, Fred Pearce Pelty, Barney Pennington Perdue, Hub Perring, George Perry Persons Persons, Arch Peters, Rube Pettee, Patrick Pfeffer, Big Jeff Pfeffer, Fred Pfiester, Jack Phelan, Art Phelan, Jimmy Phelps, Ed Phillippe, Deacon Pickering, Ollie Pickett, John Plank, Eddie Poland, Phil Polhemus, Mark Pope Powell Powell, Jack Powers, Mike Purcell, Blondie Purtell, Billy Puttman Quillin, Lee Quinn, Jack Radbourn, Old Hoss Radford, Paul Ragan, Pat Randall, Newt Rapps Rasmussen, Arthur Rath, Morrie Raymer Raymond Raymond, Bugs Reagan, Ed Reilly, Long John Reilly, Long John (Long & Short) Reilly, Tom Reulbach, Ed Revelle, Dutch Reynolds, Charlie Rhoads, Bob Rhodes, Charlie Richardson, Danny Richardson, Hardy Richie, Lew Ritchey, Claude Ritter, Lou Roach, John Robinson, Yank Rockenfeld, Ike Rockenfield Rodgers Roseman, Chief Ross Rossman, Claude Rowan, Jack Rowe Rowe, Jack Rucker, Nap Rudolph, Dick Rusie, Amos Ryan, J. Ryan, Jimmy Ryan, John Ryan, Ray Sage, Doc Saier, Vic Sallee, Slim Sanders, Ben Scanlan, Doc Scanlon, Doc Schaefer, Germany Schardt, Bill Scharnweber Schellhasse, Al Schirm, George Schlafly, Larry Schlei, Admiral Schmidt, Boss Schmutz Schomberg, Otto Schreck, Ossee Schriver, Pop Schulte, Wildfire Scott, Jim Seaton Seery, Emmett Seitz, Charles Sentz Severeid, Hank Seward, Ed Seymour, Cy Seymour, J. B. Shafer Shannon, Spike Sharpe, Bud Shaughnessy, Shag Shaw Shaw, Al Shaw, Hunky Shea Shean, Dave Sheckard, Jimmy Sheehan Shindle, Bill Shinn Shipke, Bill Shreve, Lev Silch, Ed Simmons, Hack Simon, Mike Slagle, Jimmy Slattery, Mike Smith, Carlos Smith, Charlie Smith, Elmer Smith, Frank Smith, H. Smith, Hap Smith, Heinie Smith, J. Smith, Phenomenal Smith, Pop Smith, Sid Smith, Tony Smith, Wally Snodgrass, Fred Sowders, Bill Sowders, John Spade, Bob Speaker, Tris Speas Spencer Spencer, Tubby Sprague, Charlie Spratt, Harry Stack, Eddie Stahl, Jake Staley, Harry Stanage, Oscar Stark, Dolly Starr, Charles Starr, Charlie Steele, Bill Steen Steinfeldt, Harry Stemmeyer, Bill Stephens, Jim Stewart Stinson Stoehr Stone, George Stovall Stovall, George Stovey, Harry Strang, Sam Stratton, Scott Street, Gabby Stricker, Cub Stroud, Sailor Strunk, Amos Stubbe Sugden Suggs, George Sullivan, Billy Sullivan, Dan Sullivan, Marty Sullivan, Mike Summers, Ed Sunday, Billy Sutcliffe, Sy Sutor Sutton, Ezra Swain Swander Swartzel, Park Sweeney, Bill Sweeney, Jeff Sweeny, Pete Tannehill, Jesse Tannehill, Lee Tate, Pop Taylor, Billy Taylor, Dummy Tebeau, Patsy Ten Million Tener, John Tennant Tenney, Fred Thebo, Tony Thielman, Jake Thomas Thomas, Ira Thomas, Pinch Thompson, Sam Thoney, Jack Thornton Thornton, Woodie Tiernan, Mike Tinker, Joe Titus, John Tomney, Phil Tonnesen Tooley, Bert Townsend, George Tozer Tuckerman, A. M. Turner, George Turner, Terry Twitchell, Larry Tyler, Lefty Tyng, Jim Unglaub, Bob Van Haltren, George Vaughn, Farmer Vaughn, Hippo Viola, Juan Vitt Von Der Ahe, Chris Waddell, Rube Wagner, Heinie Walker Walker, Dixie Wallace, Bobby Walsh Walsh, Ed Ward Ward, Joseph Ward, Monte Wares Warhop, Jack Waring Weaver, Buck Weber, Count Weed Weidman, Stump Weimer, Jake Welch, Curt Welch, Mickey Werrick, Joe Westlake, James Weyhing, Gus Wheat, Zack Wheeler Wheelock, Bobby White, Deacon White, Doc White, Foley White, Jake White, Kirby Whitney, Art Whitney, G. Whitney, Jim Wiggs Wilhelm, Kaiser Wilie, Denney Willett Willett, Ed Williams Williams, Bob Williams, F. Williams, Jimmy Williams, Otto G. Williamson, Ned Willis Willis, Vic Wilmot, Walt Wilson, Art Wilson, Owen Wiltse, Hooks Wingo, Ivy Wise, Sam Wolter, Harry Wolverton Wolverton, Harry Wood, Dandy Wood, George Wood, Smoky Joe Woodburn, Gene Woodruff, Orville Works, Ralph Wright, Harry Wright, Lucky Yerkes, Steve Young, Cy Young, Irv Zacher Zamlock Zeider, Rollie Zimmer, Chief Zimmerman, Heinie Zinn, Frank

Here is a chronological list by card sets...

************************************************ Allen & Ginter World"s Champions (N28)...Published: 1887 This set is generally acknowledged as the first significant tobacco set issued. Ten baseball players are included in the set, which also depicts six other sports. ************************************************ Buchner Gold Coin (N284)...Published: 1887 D. Buchner & Company issued this set which includes portraits of actual players, as well as general representations of players by position. ************************************************ Gypsy Queens...Published: 1887 Goodwin & Company issued this set, using the same photographic portraits as the Old Judge (N172) set. ************************************************ Kalamazoo Bats (N690)...Published: 1887 Charles Gross & Co. of Philadelphia issued this set comprised of players from four teams: the New York Giants and Mets, and the Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies. ************************************************ Old Judge (N172)...Published: 1887-90 Players from over 40 major and minor league teams are depicted in this set, one of the largest 19th century sets issued. ************************************************ Allen & Ginter World"s Champions (N29)...Published: 1888 This second set issued by Allen & Ginter includes six baseball players. ************************************************ Allen & Ginter World"s Champions (N43)...Published: 1888 This set of unusually large and elaborate cards adds decorative imagery around the same portraits used for the Allen & Ginter N29 set. ************************************************ Goodwin Champions (N162)...Published: 1888 Goodwin & Company issued this set of lithographic cards printed in color, which includes eight baseball players. ************************************************ S.F. Hess California League (N321)...Published: 1888 S.F. Hess & Company issued this set, comprised entirely of players in the California League. ************************************************ S.F. Hess Newsboys League (N333)...Published: 1888 S.F. Hess & Co. issued this set depicting newspaper boys from eight newspapers in eight Northeastern cities. ************************************************ W.S. Kimball Champions (N184)...Published: 1888 Four baseball players are portrayed in this set, which features a posed portrait above a drawing of the player in action. ************************************************ Yum Yum Tobacco (N403)...Published: 1888 August Beck & Company issued this set which includes studio photo portraits and full-length action line drawings similar to those used in the Old Judge (N172) set. ************************************************ Old Judge Cabinets (N173)...Published: 1888-89 The cards in this large format set were offered as premiums in exchange for coupons distributed in cigarette packages. ************************************************ S.F. Hess (N338-2)...Published: 1889 The Edwards collection contains two cards from this small set issued by S.F. Hess & Company. The complete set includes players from four teams. ************************************************ Mayo"s Cut Plug (N300)...Published: 1895 These cards were distributed in tins of chewing tobacco rather than in cigarette packs. ************************************************ Obak (T212)...Published: 1909 The American Tobacco Company issued this minor league set for the Pacific Coast League. The three Obak card sets are distinguished by the color and style of lettering, and the content of the text on the back. ************************************************ Ramly Cigarettes (T204)...Published: 1909 This set features black-and-white photographic portraits surrounded by ornate gold-embossed frames and borders. ************************************************ White Borders (T206)...Published: 1909-11 This set, among the largest and most widely distributed, includes nearly 525 color portraits surrounded by a white border. ************************************************ Domino Discs (PX7)...Published: 1909-12 The American Tobacco Company issued this set of circular cards with metal rims. ************************************************ Contentnea First Series (T209)...Published: 1910 The American Tobacco Company issued this set featuring players in the minor leagues from the Carolinas and Virginia. ************************************************ Contentnea Photo Series (T209)...Published: 1910 This second Contentnea series, comprised of black-and-white halftone photographs rather than color prints, features players from the same minor league teams as the First Series. ************************************************ Nadja Philadelphia Athletics (E104)...Published: 1910 These cards, distributed with candy caramels rather than tobacco, feature only players from the Philadelphia Athletics. ************************************************ Obak (T212)...Published: 1910 The American Tobacco Company issued this minor league set for the Pacific Coast and Northwestern Leagues. The three Obak card sets are distinguished by the color and style of lettering, and the content of the text on the back. ************************************************ Old Mill Cigarettes (T210)...Published: 1910 This set is made up of eight distinct series, each representing a different minor league. ************************************************ Gold Borders (T205)...Published: 1911 The American Tobacco Company issued this set of cards named for their gold borders and depicting major and minor league players. ************************************************ Helmar Stamps (T332)...Published: 1911 1911 The Helmar Tobacco Company issued this set of stamps, not cards, with as many as 50 different decorative designs. The stamps were placed in glassine envelopes within the cigarette packages. ************************************************ Mecca Double Folders (T201)...Published: 1911 Distributed with Mecca Cigarettes, each card portrays two players--one when the card is open, another when the card is folded. ************************************************ Obak (T212)...Published: 1911 The American Tobacco Company issued this minor league set for the Pacific Coast and Northwestern Leagues. The three Obak card sets are distinguished by the color and style of lettering, and the content of the text on the back. ************************************************ Turkey Red Cabinets (T3)...Published: 1911 The American Tobacco Company offered these large format lithographic cards printed in color as premiums in exchange for coupons distributed in cigarette packages. ************************************************ Brown Backgrounds (T207)...Published: 1912 The American Tobacco Company issued this set, which features player portraits with brown backgrounds and player biographies on the back. ************************************************ Hassan Triple Folders (T202)...Published: 1912 The American Tobacco Company issued this set featuring a black-and-white action photograph flanked by color portraits of two different players. ************************************************ Series of Champions (T227)...Published: 1912 Four baseball players are included in this series. ************************************************ Fatima Team Cards (T200)...Published: 1913 The Liggett & Myers Company issued this set of team photographs. ************************************************ Fatima (T222)...Published: 1914 The American Tobacco Company issued this set of slightly larger photographic cards. ************************************************ Piedmont Art Stamps (T330-2)...Published: 1914 The Liggett & Myers Company issued this set of stamps based on the earlier Gold Borders (T205) card set.

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