King Cole as captured by Charles Conlon at Brooklyn’s Washington Park circa 1910. King won twenty games that year for the Cubs.
Images of Charles M. Conlon himself are exceedingly rare. This one depicts him performing his day job as a proofreader for the New York Telegram. Note the back lists “proofreader” before it mentions “photographer.” Baseball photography was his secondary job, but primary fascination. The note…
1904 Conlon photo of Clark Griffith with the New York Highlanders. There are several 1904 Conlons in the Collection and they all have the same distinctive look.
Ed Ruelbach photo by Charles Conlon taken at Washington Park in Brooklyn circa 1910. It also has Conlon’s home address 11th Street stamp on back