Baseball Cards
American Tobacco Company
Joe Tinker, John Evers, and Frank
Chance, autographed cards
Color relief halftones mounted on cards, 1911
[Action poses]
Ty Cobb and Moriarity
LC-USZC4-6025
Cy Young and Charles Bender
Color relief halftones, ca. 1911
Gift of Carl Sandburg, 1954
LC-USZC4-6026,6030, respectively
Prints & Photographs
Division
Sweet Caporal Cigarettes,
American Tobacco Co., ca. 1909-11
Tris Speaker (1888-1959),
center fielder, Boston, American League
Color relief halftone
Prints and Photographs Division (208.5a)
A Close Play at Second.
Chromolithograph with hand-coloring
Issued by American Tobacco Company, ca. 1911
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift of Carl Sandburg, 1954 (216.13)
[ Digital ID # bbc 1735 ]
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Baseball cards first became popular in the 1880s when tobacco companies
used them to stiffen small, soft cigarette packages and to promote
sales. Although the cards vary in design and format, most are much
smaller than today's sports trading cards.
Cigarette card collector Benjamin K. Edwards preserved in albums
a collection of 2,100 baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914,
including
these commemorative cards of the most memorable double-play combination
in the history of baseball, Chicago Cubs infielders Joe Tinker,
John Evers, and Frank Chance, and of such legendary players as
Ty Cobb, Cy Young, Charles Bende, Tris (Tristram) E. Speaker,
and
Walter Perry Johnson..
After his death, Edward's daughter gave the albums to noted poet
and Lincoln historian Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library
in 1954.
Hassan Triple Folders
Edward Walsh/Fred Payne: Close at the plate
Reverse side (217A.2)
[digital ID# bbc1974]
Edgar Lennox/Jos. B. Tinker: Harry Lord at third
Reverse side
(216.12)
[digital
ID# bbc2007]
Prints, relief with halftone color
Issued by American Tobacco Company, ca. 1912
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Carl Sandburg, 1954
Piedmont Cigarettes,
American Tobacco Co., ca. 1909-11
Walter Johnson (1887-1946),
pitcher, Washington, American League
Color relief halftone
Prints and Photographs Division (208.5b)
American Tobacco Company
[Washington Nationals]:
Wid Conroy
Walter Johnson
Bill Shipke
Bob Groom
Baseball cards, relief prints with half-tone color
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Carl Sandburg, 1954 (216.15a-d)
Digital ID#s bbc 1039, 1046, 1051, 1045
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