This “Home Run” Baker pose was used for the Texas Tommy, Polo Grounds and M113 sets shown below. The extensive masking on this photo indicates it may well have been used to produce one of these cards.
Christy Mathewson at the Polo Grounds in New York in his PM1 pin pose.
Tris Speaker as a young player shown in Hot Springs, Arkansas for Spring Training. An unmounted photo from a cabinet photo set issued of the 1910 Boston Red Sox. A Hooper from this set is also in the Collection.
Cy Young and James “Deacon” McGuire pose on a hotel veranda in circa 1910. McGuire managed Cleveland while Young was there from 1909 to 1911. The photo is by Van Oeyen and reputedly this and dozens of other Van Oeyen framed photographs of like type…