2 – Real Photo Postcards – The Chapman Deadball Collection

1910 Philadelphia Athletics composite photo

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Terrific mounted composite photo of the members of the 1910 pennant winning Philadelphia Athletics. Razor sharp images of the team. These images are not seen anywhere else.

Tris Speaker and Bill Carrigan, 1915 World Series

1- Photographs, Agencies, Collections, Hall of Famers, Players, Tris Speaker, Underwood & Underwood, World Series

Underwood & Underwood image of Tris Speaker and Bill Carrigan at the 1915 World Series at Braves Field in Boston. Speaker is at right and peering directly into the camera. The Red Sox played their “home” World Series games at the Boston Braves field in…

Walter Johnson RPPC, 1912

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Walter Johnson shown at an exhibition game in his hometown of Humboldt, Kansas on November 7, 1912. There are several other postcards of Johnson from this game.

c. 1903 Fred Clarke by William Vander Weyde

1- Photographs, Hall of Famers, Hall of Famers, Paul Thompson's The Article Syndicate, Photos used for Cards, William M. Van Der Weyde

This image of Clarke was taken by William Vander Weyde in circa 1903. It is shown in the Eastman Museum online collection of Weyde negatives. This print was also used to create this 1907 postcard of Clarke. The image was also used on this September…

Christy Mathewson, c. 1904-1906

2 - Real Photo Postcards, Christy Mathewson, Hall of Famers

This image depicts Christy Mathewson, likely in Spring Training, in cicra 1904 to 1906. The uniform he was wearing was only used in 1904 and 1905. The postcard back is undivided which means prior to early 1907. Note the medicine ball at his feet.

1911 American Giants postcard

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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…

Frank Lange, 1912

2 - Real Photo Postcards, Frank Lange

Frank Lange shown in a RPPC taken during an exhibition game in 1912 in Wisconsin.

Jerry Eddinger, Galveston, Texas, 1907

2 - Real Photo Postcards, H.H. Morris

This RPPC was taken of Jerry Eddinger, the trainer for the Washington Senators, during Spring Training in Galveston, Texas in 1907 by photographer H.H. Morris. Morris was famous for his images of the devastation of Galveston after the great hurricane of 1900.

Chicago Cubs, West Side Grounds c. 1910

2 - Real Photo Postcards, Deadball Stadiums

This RPPC depicts a Cubs game at the West Side Grounds in Chicago circa 1910.

Roger Bresnahan RPPC

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Roger Bresnahan in a circa 1910 RPPC that belonged to his family.

Barney Pelty, RPPCs

2 - Real Photo Postcards, Bell & Palfrey, Photos published in Baseball Photography of the Deadball Era

These RPPCs of the St. Louis Browns player Barney Pelty were likely taken especially for him by the St. Louis photography firm of Bell & Palfrey in circa 1908 or 1909. They all bear a blind Bell & Palfrey stamp.

Ralph Works, 1910 H. C. Hubel RPPC

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Rare 1910 H.C. Hubel real photo postcard depicting Ralph Works. Hubel was a Michigan photographer who produced wonderful RPPCs in which he would transpose images onto a different background, such as this giant player towering over buildings and people. One of the earliest versions of…