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Originally Posted by bobw
That stamp was on the back of Reds team publicity photos throughout the 1950s and 60s. Like the AP, UPI, George Dorrill, Jacobellis stamps on their photos to make sure they got proper credit and to protect their rights.
Not mine but here are Klu publicity shots from 1955 with the same Reds stamp along with a facsimile Klu stamp.
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Very interesting, thanks for the references. I can see why they put it on more professionally produced photos. But I wonder why they put it on a spring training Snapshot and wrote Teds name like a 3rd grader. I’d like to think maybe one of the photographers slipped a private shot in for his son! Or maybe the Reds were selling or giving away snapshot style photos? Which I’ve never heard of something like that done before by a Team.
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Originally Posted by raulus
Disclaimer: I could be wrong, but…
I think this is just the legal name of the company that owned the team.
Over time, with different ownership groups that come and go, these names can change, but I think this was probably the legal name of the corporate team owner at that time.
There was a lawsuit against this legal entity back in 1925:
https://casetext.com/case/base-ball-co-v-eno
Looks like it probably confirms my suspicion. |
Good find, I agree. Sometimes you can forget the word club back in the day had much more correlation to a professional organization than a kids meetup or a for fun school activity like you might think of today.
I wonder when they stopped using that name.