Haworth’s, which produced the Jack Lapp and Jack Coombs RPPCs in the Collection in 1911, was a photography store in Philadelphia. This was likely their first foray into baseball postcards.
This ad appeared in the August 8, 1909 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Clearly this ad describes our postcard and the scene we see is the crowd at Shibe Park for a A’s vs. Tigers game.
Lee Stopple, a noted photographer, took this image of Baker and the similar image of Christy Mathewson also in this collection. The clarity and composition of the photos is of exceptional quality and we can get a sense of Stopple from the accolades he annotated…
Rube Foster, the father of black baseball, formed his American Giants team in 1911. This is one of the earliest images of the team August 1911 at the “Big Days” festival in Fennimore, Wisconsin. Top Row: Bill Pierce, Bill Monroe and ? Middle Row: Andrew…
This real photo postcard depicts Jack Chesbro in his New York Highlanders uniform at the September 29, 1905 game between the Middletown Asylum reunion team and the Cuban X Giants which took place on the grounds of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital in Middletown, New…