New Carl Horner website with hundreds of images
 

My brother is a baseball historian who has been writing articles for SABR. He recently put together a website on MLB players photographed by Carl J. Horner between 1902-1909. See this link: https://hornerportraits.org/

Thought you'd enjoy looking at it. You will recognize many of the images from T206, T204 Ramly, and especially W600 Sporting Life Cabinets.

Very nice!

I love the quotes beneath the images as much as the images themselves. Here's my Harry Barton:

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This is a fantastic reference to have! I always wondered if a portrait photo of a deadball player was a Horner, and now we have a resource for it. Will 1910 and later Horner photos be added?

Brian

Just checked out the SABR article...sounds like he stopped mlb portrait photos in 1909.

Horner Cabinets are my favorite vintage cards.

Great job!! Thanks for sharing

Impressive

Outstanding, thank you so much for sharing!

Great site, very well done.

Magnificent!

“Smoot bent the full weight of his body behind his bat and the ball shot away from his willow like a rifle ball. So hard was the ball stung that the right fielder did not know where it was until he heard it rebound off the right-field fence.”
— St. Louis Republic, July 23, 1903

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Now we know where the magnificent portraits that were hand colored for the t cards came from!

Awesome Ron. Thanks for the link!

I've spent entirely too much time looking at this today.

If he gets revenue for how much time someone spends on the site he just got a bunch from me. Very cool resource!

Horner images were also used on the Rose Postcard issue.

As to the T204's, the image are rotated 10-15 degrees. I believe that whomever T.T. Timayenis used to produce and print the cards might have just obtained the images from Horner's work(they were both in the Boston area) and used them without compensating him, trying to make them "different" by changing the appearance ever so slightly.

Very cool

Great website. Do you know if he is going to include the street clothes and action photos?

What a great website! Thanks so much for passing this along.

Horner
 

Thanks for all the kind words! I will pass along to my brother. As you can see on the website, the photos and information are purely for historical purposes and to be a collectors' resource. And to be a little entertaining and to give a glimpse of how the game was being reported by newspaper journalists. There is no intent to place advertising or generate revenue from the site. The positive feedback from respected collectors, like yourselves, is a reward though.

Absolutely GREAT !!!!!

Thanks for sharing.

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“The second inning was a bad one for the Athletics. Catcher Powers twice threw to second and there was no one there to receive the ball.”
— Philadelphia Inquirer, July 18, 1902

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You can't beat that, Scott :rolleyes: