Deadball Postcard Bonanza Share Thread!
 

Let's see everyone's great deadball era postcard archival images! I've often considered just how important postcards are to very early century imagery + photographic documentation going back to the earliest days of photography. They deeply intersect with cards in my opinion.

Let's see the good stuff + tell the stories to tell! Stories accompanying the images and posts are deeply welcome. Let's create a great mosaic of the images.

Here's one of mine from today, the famous 1906 cubbies courtesy of Hammon + Lawrence.

Here’s mine!

gotta love that early NYG content; a really well chosen 1919 piece there. nice!

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Learn the story here:

https://chapmandeadballcollection.co...bro-1905-rppc/

nice, jim! there's something really powerful about these early postcards isnt there. they bridge the gap between the early type 1s which were often entirely confined to news rooms and private organizations + the democratic medium of the baseball card itself which i would say was still in its nascency up until 1908-1909. they provided a unique method of revealing moments like this, behind the scenes photographic moments and glimpses into the game which could be personally owned; shared; sent through the mail.

its a powerful type of object that straddles and transcends a lot of lines in terms of media and history. the transcription of the original lawrence seating for the cubs 1906 postcard is a great example of a scripted moment transposition, whereas the piece you just shared, perhaps presumptuous of me but said based on the way the figures are seated and oriented and how the photo is composed - gives that unscripted look into history.

Thanks! I love the early stuff. Boxing has some great early postcards as well.

ah!! very interesting. you classify the exhibits as a postcard! i like that. they are really interesting outliers historically; the card quality to me puts them perfectly in line with card that is postcard, postcard that is card territory.

A few

I usually don’t classify exhibits as postcards, but the Jeffries has a postcard back so….

that boston american series is awesome. really love that look. that second one you shared at first glance i would think it was a type 1 newsroom photo. really interesting stuff.

wow that bio on the back as well. really multipurpose. i was aware that some of the exhibits had postcard backs as well; have seen a few examples. really strange phenomenon they are.

Here's a few from Washington.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...efc9d810a0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e95ec7d748.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f90d26014a.jpg

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fascinating use and reuse of images here. same pose for the boyhood home and the brennan + definitely recognized that hand-on-shoulder with street from his sporting news supplement! wild to see his childhood home.

Joss & Co.

1910 naps: joss, cy, joe jackson, nap lajoie. peckinpaugh + terry turner too...

e'nuf ced!

That postcard features the 1907 team. No Joe Jackson or Cy Young, but Elmer Flick is in there.

ah my mistake. was thinking associatively. the addie joss day celebration is one of the most powerful moments in baseball history to me. he's one of my favorite players of the era; he has a lot of great cards as well.

you ever see that huge panoramic photo of the day of that game?

A few more from Washington. Notice the color of the ball Street is posing w. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6aa38df555.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c8d748d338.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1148144e32.jpg

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If you wanted to see LOTS and LOTS of postcards, there was no need to start a new thread. This very-long-running thread with almost 1,900 posts has all the postcard candy your eyes can handle: https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...ight=postcards

thanks val! just wanted to get people talking and sharing contemporaneously. appreciate the heads up and for sharing this great thread!

I always like this one..

https://luckeycards.com/ppcunc1915eversgriffin.jpg

What a piece of history, and interesting on multiple levels- love it!

1905 Philadelphia Athletics. Postmarked on October 10th 1905. The day After Game one of the World Series where Matty pitched the first of his 3 complete game shutouts vs the A's. With Eddie Plank giving up 3 runs in the loss.

Billy Taub was an O.G. celebrity athlete star f***er of the first order. He put out a series of postcards in the early 1930s including this one with Ruth:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...c%20PC%201.jpg

Rodine, early 1950s:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...%20HOF%204.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...e%20PC%203.jpg
A premium but the same art:
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...remium%202.jpg

Some signed:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...Lipset%201.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...bsize/Bell.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...igned%20PC.jpg

Boxing does have some astounding PCs. Among my favorites:

As far as I can tell, this is the first boxing PC:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...livan%20PC.png

Jack Dempsey from Japan, promoting his serial "Daredevil Jack":

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...n%20PC%201.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...n%20PC%203.jpg

Interesting Cuban promotional PC signed from HOFer Kid Chocolate written to HOF broadcaster/promoter Cuco Conde

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...aphed%20PC.jpg

The Brown Bomber:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...Louis%20PC.jpg

The Rock, pre-1951 PC

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...m%20PC%201.jpg

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...970s%20Ali.jpg

No list would be complete for me w/o an Adam Hats. Billy Conn, PC and premium:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...0Conn%20PC.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...n_%20Billy.jpg

Picked up this 1907 Tecumseh PC with a young Fred Merkle in Sterling last night.


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2d6cc2d8_c.jpg

Forgot that I had this one also. That’s Packy McFarland (of the T218 tobacco card set fame). I was hoping to have SGC encapsulate it but they were not able to determine who actually manufactured the postcard and the Knights of Columbus has no record either.

Found this today at a flea market for $1.00!!!