It's plausible and perhaps likely that a local photography studio made the postcards for the team. Local photography studios purchased from factories their blank photo postcard paper and cardboard mounts for cabinet cards and CDVs. They usually didn't make those supplies themselves. It's plausible a studio purchased blank Rose postcards to make photo postcards for the team.
Also, it was not an uncommon cabinet card style back then to have an oval or circular area in the middle and the photographic portrait cut out and pasted in it. The image is often handcut.
Last edited by drc; 05-04-2013 at 02:25 PM.
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