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barrysloate1900-10 is the golden age of the postcard so it would be teams from that era. There are nice ones of 06 Cubs and White Sox, not too rare; I recently sold on ebay a silver print postcard that showed Joe Wood as a minor leaguer; and I'm pretty sure I've seen other Giants postcards from ca. 1905. But now that you put me to the task, I'm not sure I have ever seen a better team shot than Joe's. There are some exceptional metamorphic team cards that fold out like an accordian, but they provide individual shots of the players. Unless I am forgetting something obvious, I would be hard pressed to find a more aesthetically posed postcard than Joe's. And while many from that era exhibit printed photographs, his is a real albumen(?)which makes it that much more exceptional. I think there are other board members- JC comes to mind- who have a deeper knowledge of team postcards. His website has some amazing ones.