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Originally Posted by cfhofer
Signed books by either of them are really tough. I have Hare’s scrapbook while at St. Marks, which has numerous athletic photos and signatures of him. There was a great book on Orton written a few years ago called ‘The Greatest Athlete’ by Mark Hebscher. I have a few photos of Orton on my Penn website, to include his signature. Take a look when time permits www.vintagepenna.com |
Good looking website.
I would not expect to find many books signed by either of them. The books were for adolescents and you don't find those signed that early. They were not like R.L. Stine is today.
Here are a couple of photos of Penn folks:
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Josiah McCracken - '99, MD-'01. Silver and bronze medals 1900 Olympics in Paris. Served as a medical missionary in China for 50 years. There is a nice portrait of him in the Penn Photo collection.
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Lawson Robertson as an athlete ca. 1906 Olympics. Signed photo to his coach. This is an odd photo as they mounted it on linen so the adhesive affected the photo, making it very dark and difficult to tell it is a real signature. I had to scan in grayscale and play with the exposure to make it viewable.
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Lawson Robertson as a coach. Long time track coach at Penn.
Here is an RPPC of one of the other early football players / Olympians I mentioned earlier - Oscar Osthoff.
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