This image depicts Heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan meeting the Boston American’s team captain, Jimmy Collins by the dugout at Huntington Grounds in Boston during the 1904 season. We can identify the year by the cap Collins is wearing. There is a better know…
Portrait of Sam Crawford circa 1917 by the American Press Association.
Image of Tris Speaker at Fenway Park circa 1912. What is interesting about this image, and unusual for the period, is that portions of it have been hand colorized.
Snapshot from Spring Training in Hot Springs, Arkansas in the early 1910s. Duffy Lewis, Harry Hooper and Tris Speaker are show.
Hal Chase as snapped by Robert W. Tebbs. This image appeared on a Tebbs composite image and a 1906 Police Gazette supplement. This print was the actual one used to create the supplement.
Rube Waddell was one of the most fascinating characters of the Deadball Era, or any era for that matter. In January 1903 during the offseason Waddell took a job as a player/coach for Rollins College in Ormond, Florida. He brought in fellow Philadelphia Athletics’ catcher…
This print of Harry Heilmann was issued by Felix Mendelsohn. While not a photographer himself, Mendelsohn issued a set of cards, the M101-6 set, which this image was included within. It is suspected Francis Burke may have taken many of the images for Mendelsohn.
c. 1903 Pictorial News Co. print of Wee Willie Keeler leaping for a high one. Likely take at the same time as the other 1903 Pictorial News image of Keeler which is in the Collection. This image was used for the front cover of the…
One of the best images of Young from late in his career. This image is from 1908 based on the jersey, note the “Boston” printed on the red sock on Young’s jersey along with the crisscross lace enclosure. The back tells us this image came…
This print of Sam Crawford was the production piece likely used to create his D304 card image and his 1916 Police Gazette supplement image. The masking matches those images. The research was done by Gumshoe Baseball and Deron Dixon.
This image is likely by Francis P. Burke as there is a known image by him that is just a tick off of this one. Note the man at the center of the bottom row. This is the team’s black trainer “Doc” Buckner. He is…
1913 profile image of McGraw by Francis Burke of Burke & Atwell.