Deadball Photographic Collection website
 

If you are interested in Deadball Era photographs and real photo postcards, you may want to check out my new website.

https://chapmandeadballcollection.com/

If you enjoy the story behind the images be sure to check out the Research Notes section.

Looking forward to seeing it :)

The site is now up.

I spent 30 minutes just to quickly review some of the photos and see what the collection was about. Now I'm definitely planning to go back for an in depth visit.

Jim, this is awesome. There are a number of excellent photos in the collection, but I especially enjoyed your Home Run Baker photos. The 1911 image of him holding that 52 ounce club on his shoulder, with that uniform, cap, the intense portrait and focus, in my opinion, is truly one of the finest images in the hobby, and clearly represents that era as well as any photo.

Thank you for sharing this collection with us!

Jim that looks real nice. Amazing collection and thanks for sharing!

Really great collection of photos. As a Bender collector I especially loved seeing the gallery of his pics. Thanks for sharing this.

Great site Jim! I look forward to checking the rest of it out.

For me every page was pretty slow to load. Did you upload full resolution images? If so, that can really slow things down because the photos take up a lot of storage space. I think that most images online are well under 1 MB each. I am not an expert, so someone else can probably provide a better answer.

Or, maybe the site was just slow for me yesterday. :)

Thanks guys! The site does load slow sometimes and sometimes it is quite quick. All the images have been reduced to a few hundred kb at most. If anyone has any advice on how to "speed up" image load times on a site I am all ears.

Worked better on Firefox than Chrome for me. Incredible site!

badass! thanks for sharing

Awesome site Jim.