Photos of the Founding Collectors

[topcat61]

Good morning, does anyone have a photo of the following collectors or know where I can find one?

Walter Corson
Bob Jasperson
Goodwin Goldfadden
John D. Wagner

I'm also looking for photos of Enos Gordon Goudey and Photographer Carl Horner. Anything would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by topcat61

Good morning, does anyone have a photo of the following collectors or know where I can find one?

Walter Corson
Bob Jasperson
Goodwin Goldfadden
John D. Wagner

I'm also looking for photos of Enos Gordon Goudey and Photographer Carl Horner. Anything would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Here's John D. Wagner in the early 1980s:



Goodwin Golfaden in 2010:



Bob Jaspersen with son Mike in 1967:



And in 1972 with Jeff Morey, Waite Hoyt, and Pat Quinn:



I don't have a picture of Walter Corson, but I wrote a long post about him:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=232220

[Peter_Spaeth]

I would have bet everything I own that David would be the one to answer this.

[Jeffrompa]

Will have to do some digging though ..

[topcat61]

David, you're an excellent researcher, and Jeff, I look forward to seeing a photo of Walt when you have the chance! Thanks for this. I've been trying to put faces with the names of our founding fathers of the hobby and the owners who started companies that issued cards...a daunting task.

I had a photo of Carl Horner from an auction catalog, but I cant remember the catalog name and lost the photo. The Boston Public Library claims they don't have a photo, but he's such a prominent photographer at the time, I find it hard to believe.

[Jantz]

Carl Horner

[trdcrdkid]

Actually, its serendipity more than anything that I was the first to respond. I'm in London right now, and when I saw this post I was in the London Metropolitan Archives, near the end of a day of research. I had some time, and I knew I had some of those pictures in posts I've made here, or in George Vrechek's articles, so I took 10 minutes and put together a reply. I was going to say that Jeffrompa probably had a picture of Walter Corson, who was best friends with Jeff's dad, but I didn't want to be presumptuous. I guess I needn't have worried.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I would have bet everything I own that David would be the one to answer this.

That's why I didn't take your bet.

[topcat61]

So I was going to save this as a surprise for all my fellow members here, but I have a request for it. I was able to do a portrait of Harvard alum, class of 1904 Harold C. DeLong. Harvard is not too keen on allowing the original photo to be made public, so the only thing original is Mr. DeLong's head, everything else I came up with out of the thin air of history. Enjoy.

[tjb1952tjb]

Originally Posted by Jantz

Carl Horner

Tilly was a cutie!

[BobbyVCP]

I spent many hours on Saturdays in Goodie's store on Santa Monica Blvd near Fairfax as a kid. You walk in the front and it was very narrow entrance and there was a desk. You would tell him what player you wanted and he would go in the back and a few minutes later come back with a stack of cards constrained with a rubber band. He also did that thumb thing with them on the corner. He did not care very much about condition.

[ocjack]

I lived within walking distance of Goodwin's shop. Most times you needed to call ahead to let him know you were coming. The front part of the store was shelves and tables piled high with magazines, books, boxes of assorted cards, etc. If you asked for a little known player in an obscure set, he walked into the back room and come out with 10 of the cards you just asked about.

I too would cringe when he did the thumb-flip through a stack of cards in order to find one.

Goody may or may not have had the first card store. I just feel fortunate that, in retrospect, I had the opportunity to meet him and do some trades with him. He is part of the hobby's heritage.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ocjack

I lived within walking distance of Goodwin's shop. Most times you needed to call ahead to let him know you were coming. The front part of the store was shelves and tables piled high with magazines, books, boxes of assorted cards, etc. If you asked for a little known player in an obscure set, he walked into the back room and come out with 10 of the cards you just asked about.

I too would cringe when he did the thumb-flip through a stack of cards in order to find one.

Goody may or may not have had the first card store. I just feel fortunate that, in retrospect, I had the opportunity to meet him and do some trades with him. He is part of the hobby's heritage.

I love to hear and research stories from the hobbies dawning. Thanks and thanks to the others for sharing stories.

[Paul S]

I also knew Goodwin (never had the guts to call him Goodie, like his wives (2, but serially ) . Yes, that store was floor-to-ceiling with books and periodicals of all sorts. In my teens I was already somewhat steeped in prewar...public library, imagine that! (Goodwin also had rented garages packed to the hilt in the surrounding neighborhood of his store). So I would ask for the more "known" players, but eventually he began to bring out others and talk to me a little bit about them. He cared nothing about tobacco backs (neither did I, then, jiust thought they looked "neat") and it ended up - decades later after I re-entered the hobby about a decade ago - that he had shoved upon me a really nice T206 Duffy Red Hindu; graded highest ever for any TPG and sold a few years back with B&L.

Now, eventually he moved his residence about a 2-minute bike ride from my own house in the San Fernando Valley! One summer (this is late Sixties) I spent about a month there sorting postwar (not vintage then)). At one point I came across The '52T Mick. I already it knew what they were going for (mid-upper $30s) and couldn't pull the trigger on it!

Later on in the Seventies when I had moved to SF he called my Mom and asked for my address. Was nice to get a letter from him. He was always a prolific correspondent due to his business. He reported that he had sold everything he had in his inventory to the University of Notre Dame which at that time gave them the largest sports library anywhere. Maybe still does. I don't know about the Library of Congress.

[topcat61]

This is good stuff! Thanks for sharing, there's nothing like getting a face with the name and learning how these men shaped our hobby. There are a few others I added to my list and there may be a few more that I've forgotten:

Wirt Gammon
Edward Golden
Howard "Slim" Leheup
Sam Rosen
Jake Wise

Thanks.

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by topcat61

This is good stuff! Thanks for sharing, there's nothing like getting a face with the name and learning how these men shaped our hobby. There are a few others I added to my list and there may be a few more that I've forgotten:

Wirt Gammon
Edward Golden
Howard "Slim" Leheup
Sam Rosen
Jake Wise

Thanks.

Wirt Gammon's picture sometimes appeared above his column in The Ballcard Collector in the early '70s, if there was room. The only one I can find online from work is this one, but I can look at the originals when I get home tonight and see if I can find another one. I've posted a lot of Gammon's writings going back to 1945, but most of them don't have his picture. I've been meaning to do a post about him at some point.



I don't know that I have pictures of any of the others, but in this thread I posted Lionel Carter's obituaries of Howard Leheup and Jake Wise, plus an article by Jake Wise from The Ballcard Collector:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221758

And my post on card dealers of the 1950s had some stuff on Sam Rosen, including some of his price lists:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=233137

I'll see if I can dig up pictures of any of these guys when I get home and have a few minutes.

[Fred]

What, no Mr. Mint photos? Sorry, nothing here to read... just keep moving on...

[topcat61]

Hehe, I snapped a photo and an autograph from Mr. Mint in November shortly before he got called up to the Field of Dreams.

[topcat61]

I asked the Hall of Fame if they could help me secure a photo of Walt Corson, and they said I have to make an appointment first. I don't live in New York and gave them info from his letters. Didn't help much apparently. I also found into from one of the Arizona papers that the Arizona State League was formed prior to 1926. Every site I've got to says it was started in 1928 -clearly this is not the case. Corson and the Arizona State League are fascinating to me. I cant believe there isn't a photo? A Yankee spring training photo from 1926 or 1934?