Thread: Are reprints from original Spalding Guide photos available somewhere?
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Old 03-21-2009, 08:26 PM
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Default Are reprints from original Spalding Guide photos available somewhere?
Posted By: Mark

I only wish it were so. In some cases vintage photos that were used in the Guides do come up. I have some middle range to excellent scans of some.

You can find some Boston team images at the Boston Public Library flickr site - downloaded resolution is medium - the quality is much better than you find in the Guides.

The 1911 Spalding Guide head shot composites are Paul Thompson photos. The Library of Congress has at least some of these, and a group of about 30 or so are available in hi-res online.

If you list the photos you are interested in I will see if I have any of them.

For example, this Pit NL photo was used in the 1897 Spalding Guide:
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