Real Photo Postcards

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Posted By: Alan Elefson

Hi-
First of all, I am sorry for two consecutive postcard posts, but I just picked up a small group at a Flea Market yesterday. Second, please use this thread to show your unidentified real photo postcards featuring vintage baseball players. As can be seen in the scanned image below, mine is not unidentified (any one ever hear of Parker Cummins?). Is this card from the 1910s? Any other information would be greatly appreciated.
Please feel free to post your own unidentified RPCs or feel free to post ones you have questions about.

Thanks in advance,
Alan Elefson
aelefson@hotmail.com
aelefson@meditech.com

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Posted By: George Dreher

Israel Parker Cummins was born on October 24, 1868 in Boyleston, (modern spelling "Boylston") New York to Ira and Sarah Cummins. In 1893 he married Etta H. Stevens, born 1870, also of Boyleston. He was a farmer. He died sometime in 1930 and is buried in North Boylston Cemetery on Wart Road.

Photos of the cemetery:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyoswego/towns/boylston/nboylstoncem.html

Boylston population today is only 505.

Based on the uncommon name, in my opinion, the person in your photo is almost undoubtedly the above person since no other person with that name was alive in the United States when such a photo could have been taken. He is referred to in nearly all records as Parker and not Israel, which was his real first name. Perhaps he played baseball for the town team in Boyleston when your photo was taken?