Below are the original photo used for the Mike Gonzalez 1917-20 Felix Mendelsohn and Baseball Postcard and the Adolfo Luque photo used for the Exhibit and Baseball Postcard. As you can see the makers all cropped the photos to produce their cards. The makers of the Exhibit cards often used paints to brush out the background of the photo to leave the player alone as seen in the Luque exhibit card. The makers of the Eastern Exhibit cards and the makers of the Baseball Postcards in question here did not brush out the backgrounds. Leading me to speculate that they may have been one and the same.
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