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Posted By: scott brockelman

many of the t-cards, specifically t204 & many t206's along with many e-cards, such as e107 & e103 were taken from carl horners photography work, as are W600's and many other early baseball issues, they are in some cases the original photo or "colorized version's" these usually having team names drawn in such as on the t206's, as to the obaks i am not sure of the original photographer, but i am fairly sure it was the same scenario, a photographer took the pictures and the cards were "colorized from them.

these original horner cabinet photos on horner mounts are sometimes found on ebay or in the major auctions and usually command spirited bidding.

later on in the 1920's and 1930's george burke took the majority of photos that were used on goudeys and playball cards, at one time i owned almost 400 original george burke photos from his studio, which included 2 of the 33 goudey ruth shots and 39 playball dimaggio shots, among many others. the goudeys were they cropped and colorized, the playballs being used as they were.


scott