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A Photographic Treasury of Baseball’s Deadball Era

Circa 1910 shot of Stanage shot by Harris & Ewing and distributed by Paul Thompson’s The Article Syndicate.

Portrait of Sam Crawford circa 1917 by the American Press Association.

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.

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 photo depicts what is believed to be Ty Cobb at the bat against the New York Highlanders at Hilltop Park in New York in 1908.

Snapshot of Sam Crawford taken at Bennett Park in Detroit circa. Note the scoreboard and clubhouse behind him. The print is mounted to a board.

Billy Sullivan and Boss Schmidt, catchers for the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers respectively, relax along the outfield wall at Benett Park in Detroit circa 1910. This image was captured by a photographer from The Detroit News. It perfectly captures the essence of the…

1916 photograph of Ty Cobb greeting Benny Kauff in Houston, Texas in April 1916 when the Giants and Tigers played an exhibition there in Spring Training.