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A Photographic Treasury of Baseball’s Deadball Era

Guy Cooper at Hot Springs, Arkansas for Spring Training. Photo by George T. Murray.

Doc Crandall posed at the West Side Grounds in Chicago in 1912. A possible Francis P. Burke image

Pete Allison by Malcolm MacLean of the Chicago Evening Post.

This image of Dusty Rhodes was taken in circa 1904 by Hugh O’Neil whose stamp is barely visible on back. The Paul Thompson syndicate stamp was likely placed on the photo a few years later.

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.

This postcard size image depicts Charley Street of the Washington Senators during Spring Training at Galveston, Texas in 1907. It was likely taken by noted Galveston photographer H.H. Morris who also produced a series of RPPCs from that training camp.

Mounted cabinet photos during the second half of the Deadball Era are uncommon. This image of Jim Bagby of the Cincinnati Reds in 1912 was taken by F. Boellinger.