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Posted By: davidcycleback

Bib uniforms were common in the 1870s and uncommon in the 1890s. When I first saw the bib uniform, 1870s came to mind. However, the big padded glove establishes the team as later. There were gloves in the 1870s, but they were unpadded and fingerless, almost like bicycle racer's gloves.

The baseball photo does look somewhat funny. In particular the white and black border parts are unusual. But unusual doesn't automatically mean reprint and it's hard to tell anything for certain from a head on scan.

I know much less about football uniforms than baseball, but know that some of the 1800s football jerseys were tightly string tied up the front (as in the picture). It was desirable to have as tight a jersey as possible to make it hard to be grabbed.