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Originally Posted by seattlerainiers
An unremarkable baseball tintype, except for the fact that it is depicts an Alaska ballplayer (and is reversed...unusual in a tintype)
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Regarding your tintype, I wonder what the infatuation with Alaska was that there were a fair number of teams named "Alaska" in the 1860's/1870's. I know there was an "Alaska" team from Brooklyn, NY. There was also an "Alaska" team from Fairhaven, Mass that I have in an 1867 scorebook. Probably several others as well. It caused me to look up Alaska in Wiki and I see that the U.S. purchased it in 1867 from Russia which, I suppose, was the reason. Still seems odd that a team would name themselves after a remote, little known, wilderness.
Rob M.
P.S. As Scott alluded to - All tintypes were produced as mirror images (as well as ambrotypes and dags). If you see one that is not reversed, either it's a photo of a photo (a mirror image of a mirror image) or, as is often seen in Civl War images, the photographer made the correction on the original image with overpainting.
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