GREAT input here, everyone! Thanks so much! So, if I'm understanding properly, Old Judge, CDVs and Cabinet cards were made from negatives. Negatives could produce several, but not an unlimited amount, as they would degrade over time. Perhaps there simply aren't that many cards of each player in the Old Judge set then? Man, I think I've gotta get my hands on that Old Judge book by Jay and the other gentleman who wrote it (I think there were two people?)
As for newspapers, they were using woodcuts and stamping them basically by hand? They couldn't use pictures (until the dot-matrix patterns was invented) because they couldn't reproduce the images due to the paper needed. Do I have it right so far?
Looking forward to hearing from others as well!
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