Cooperstown, Thorpe
Sadly I don't they've scanned the "File Of The Unidentified" - but a lot of the remaining stuff seemed to be Town Teams of the 1800's.
As to a T209 Thorpe, I always had the impression that certainly for T209-2 he might have 'missed photo day' - he might've still been in the school year as the seasons began in the Carolinas. Since there are at least a dozen T209-2's that depict guys who never actually played in any games in 1910 (this includes those super rare Reeves and Steinbach finds), and since the cards show the first city for a team that switched venues in July, the cards were clearly made early rather than late.
So this means, I think, if there had been a T209-2 of Thorpe, it would actually be a numerically scarce card added late in the distribution process!
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