I had a number of chances to talk to George Brace at Wrigley Field in the early 80's (Who I believe was Burke's assistant and took over his business) and I asked him once what he does with all the pictures. He said the majority of his business comes from players buying photos from him to send to fans and family. He once told me they used to sell postcards but by the 80's it was mostly photographs.
The sad thing is I saw this man every day and thought of him as a kindly old guy who took player photos. He did speak a few times of sitting on the bench between Ruth and Gehrig when he was younger which I thought was really cool, but if only I had known then what I know now I would have paid more attention to him and wrote down his stories!!
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