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Posted By: Anonymous

They are a set of 12 single player cabinets picturing the 1871 Boston Red Stockings. They were the dominant professional team before the National League was founded in 1876. Several of the players came to the Boston team from the 1869 Cincinnati team including George and Harry Wright and Cal McVey.

As discussed on this thread, there were team pictures and some individual photos made prior to this, but I think this is the first real "set" of cards, in the way we think of them today.