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This real photo postcard was taken in 1907 in front of Snellenburg’s department store in Philadelphia when the Elk’s national convention was in town. Great Americana shot which depicts a detailed Philadelphia Inquirer Major League scoreboard that can be dated to July 13, 1907 based…

Christy Mathewson and Chief Bender are the opposing pitchers depicted in this postcard for the first game of the 1911 World Series at the Polo Grounds in New York. This is a lithographic rather than photographic postcard.

A great example of a press photo used for a newspaper article. This photo was used for this article in a October 1911 newspaper just prior to his appearance in the World Series against the Giants.

A.J. Schumann, a Chicago photographer issued a eight real photo postcard set of Chicago baseball stadiums in 1908. This shot shows the ornate main entrance in 1908, the first year the Cubs were formally known as the “Cubs”. Note the cub figures holding up the…

This image is of the Polo Grounds, the New York Giants home field, in April 1911 just after a fire destroyed it. The vantage point is from high up on Coogan’s Bluff. Simply a stunning photograph!

This historically significant image is the earliest known original photo of Babe Ruth, the most celebrated baseball player ever, in the Majors. The image was likely snapped by a fan from the first base stands. Ruth is on the mound in his second major league…