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A Photographic Treasury of Baseball’s Deadball Era

The Chapman Deadball Collection

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“All Stars” Connie Mack/Jimmy McAleer, 1910

1906-1910 Images, Collections, Doc Adams, George McBride, Hall of Famers, Kid Elberfeld, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Players, Tris Speaker, Walter Johnson

“All-Stars” Opening Day Composite, 1915

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson, 1911-1915 Images, Agencies, American Press Association, Christy Mathewson, Collections, Eddie Collins, Hall of Famers, Honus Wagner, Johnny Evers, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Players, Rabbit Maranville, Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson

“Doc” White glass negatives by Francis P. Burke

1911-1915 Images, Chicago White Sox, Collections, Doc White, Francis P. Burke, Glass Negatives, Photographers, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Teams

“Red” Kleinow, New York Highlanders, circa 1904

Agencies, Collections, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Red Kleinow, The Pictorial News Co.

1900 snapshots of West Side Grounds in Chicago

Deadball Stadiums, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era

1901 Bennett Park in Detroit, Opening Day

Collections, Deadball Stadiums, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era

1904 St. Louis Browns, Spring Training in Corsicana, Texas at Oil City Park

1900-1905 Images, Bobby Wallace, Collections, Hall of Famers, Jesse Burkett, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Players, St. Louis Browns, Teams

1905 New York Giants Championship Parade

Brown Brothers, Collections, Hall of Famers, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era

1908 Baker Bowl snapshots with Honus Wagner at bat

1906-1910 Images, Collections, Deadball Stadiums, Hall of Famers, Honus Wagner, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Pittsburgh Pirates, Players, Teams

1908 St. Louis Browns RPPC with Rube Waddell

Bell & Palfrey, Collections, Deadball Stadiums, Hall of Famers, Photographers, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Players, Real Photo Postcards, Rube Waddell, St. Louis Browns, Teams, William Bell & George E. Palfrey

1909 Ty Cobb in his Chalmers on the NY-Atlanta Good Roads Tour

1906-1910 Images, Agencies, Collections, Detroit Tigers, Hall of Famers, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Players, Spooner & Wells, Teams, Ty Cobb

1909 World Series, Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, Davy Jones, Signed Van Oeyen Photograph

1906-1910 Images, Collections, Detroit Tigers, Hall of Famers, Louis Van Oeyen, Photographers, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Players, Sam Crawford, Teams, Ty Cobb, World Series Images

1910 Joseph Pearce Philadelphia Athletics photos

Collections, Joseph N. Pearce, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era

1910 Philadelphia A’s composite RPPC

Chief Bender, Collections, Eddie Collins, Eddie Plank, Frank "Home Run" Baker, Hall of Famers, Haworth Kodak Philadelphia A's, Philadelphia Athletics, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Real Photo Postcards, Team Photos, Teams

1911 Frank “Home Run” Baker by Kingsmore

1911-1915 Images, Collections, Frank "Home Run" Baker, Hall of Famers, Howard Kingsmore, Philadelphia Phillies, Photographers, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Players, Teams

1911 Jones, Keyser & Arras Frank Chance cabinet photo

1911-1915 Images, Chicago Cubs, Collections, Frank Chance, Hall of Famers, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era, Photos used for Cards, Teams

1911 New York Giants 14 signed photos from the Frank Smith Collection

Frank W. Smith, New York Giants 1911 Frank Smith Photos, Photographers, Photographs, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era