although mounted photo might be more appropriate. I'd guess 1908 or perhaps a skosh earlier? I'm no expert. I really like it. I used to buy doll photos and circus or black themed photos to sell on feeBay in the mid 1990's to feed my own habit of women base ball players cabinets. I figured as long as I was going to photo and ephemera shows AND ebay was just being born..... After 3/4 years doll collector's interest in them leveled off like much of what was old and new after they were exposed to the medium - the market matured and corrected with the internet. Circus oddities and african americanna seems to have remained as it was. I kept a few examples of each genre.
That being said I might have developed a strange attraction to unusal doll photos as a result of my travails
A weird shot like yours will always hold it's value - I've never encountered one with a base ball uniform and the overall spookyness draws the viwer in. I'd keep it - but if not - you can shoot me a number......
didn't see you slept the auction. Sorry about that....