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I think it has nice material. It's obvious the auction is intended for a wider sports collecting audience, not just Pre-War baseball card specialists.

My guess is the Anson portrait photograph belonged to Anson. There are a small number of oversized, high quality studio portraits around, including from the same studio, that were Anson's and later obtained from his family. A friend owned some of them and had a family provenance letter stating they were Cap's. Due to the studio quality, display size and formal sitting, they are physically and stylistically consistent with photos to be made for the subject, family and home. If a neighbor picked up one of the photos at a garage sale except the guy in the picture was an anonymous nobody, I would say "It looks likes a family photo. It was probably made to be displayed at his home, office, relatives home or somewhere on that order."