King Cole as captured by Charles Conlon at Brooklyn’s Washington Park circa 1910. King won twenty games that year for the Cubs.
This striking image of Topsy Hartsel was taken by Charles M. Conlon in circa 1909 at Hilltop Park in New York. It bears Conlon’s handwriting on back. This image appears in McCabe’s Conlon book.
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…
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