19th Century Wood Cut Prints

[SD]

I'll start it off.
1874 Boston Redstockings
52-18 led by 5 HOF baseball pioneers.

[rjackson44]

Nice. Post derek

[triwak]

1869 Redstockings

[SD]

Which ones are the Wright's?

Originally Posted by triwak

1869 Redstockings

[h2oya311]

One you don't see too often of Negro League HOFer Frank Grant:

[bgar3]

Derek, the Wrights are Harry, 1st row center,
George, back row 2d from left with his Clipper medal on his uniform.

[aquarius31]

It’s always great to see a thread on woodcuts

[bcbgcbrcb]

Derek:

Did you ever pick up the Chadwick Clipper woodcut? It was from around 1880 and double or triple the size of the others.

[bcbgcbrcb]

There is an 1874 Philadelphia Athletics w/Cap Anson, also very cool. Sorry, I don’t have a pic of it handy.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

There is an 1874 Philadelphia Athletics w/Cap Anson, also very cool. Sorry, I don’t have a pic of it handy.

Anson is the bottom right corner

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Anson is the bottom right corner

I’ve always loved that one of Anson. I really want the cabinet with the same image. I’ve seen a few of these Harper’s of the 1874 Philadelphia team that were colorized (is that a word?). Is that a variation or did someone / some people do that on their own upon receipt of the Weekly?

[aquarius31]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

There is an 1874 Philadelphia Athletics w/Cap Anson, also very cool. Sorry, I don’t have a pic of it handy.

Hi Phil, hope you're doing well! Here's another version of the 1874 Athletics.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

Derek:

Did you ever pick up the Chadwick Clipper woodcut? It was from around 1880 and double or triple the size of the others.

I did. Traded it to a hobby friend a few years ago after I had picked up an 1868 Oval Photo of Chadwick. Sold it to the same guy. Now all I have is a Spalding Guide image of Chadwick from 1889. Oops!

Here’s the NY Clipper Woodcut of Chadwick I used to own:

[doug.goodman]

Rodger Connor

[bcbgcbrcb]

Similar to Derek’s Frank Grant, there is also a Sol White from around 1889 that was part of a team composite of 9, if I recall correctly.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Lew Lipset was the man when it came to NY Clipper woodcuts. He had many of the complete newspapers as well. That’s where I got just about all of mine that I had at one time, I believe I had each of the HOF’ers that were produced.

Lew also self-published a softcover “booklet” which pictured every NY Clipper baseball woodcut ever produced. Very hard to find today, a very small quantity was made, maybe something like 50 or so. I was able to buy one off of eBay many years ago but no longer have it.

[bgar3]

FYI
Derek, the color versions of the woodcuts are not really an issue, but are hand done mostly many years later. I believe there is still a company that is colorizing these. At one time they used to send them on spec to bookshops etc. some are pretty accurate, but many are not. Gary’s example above is particularly well done. (And thank you.)
As for the New York Clipper books I know of at least 2 versions. The Lipset version is hard to find, but there are at least 3 copies available online 40-50 bucks or so.
The other version is a Mcfarland publication from around 2010,. It has the biographies and I think all the woodcuts. I know there is a 2 volume version but I think there may be a 1 volume version also, not sure. These are also available but last I looked were more expensive.

[h2oya311]

Thanks Bruce. Great info on the colored versions.

Phil - do you have an image of the Sol White Woodcut? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that one before.

[SD]

Here is my 66 Atlantics Athletics cut.

[aquarius31]

Would love to see some more non Harpers or Leslies woodcuts. Anyone?


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[SD]

Most of my Leslie’s are civil war and historic deaths like Lincoln and Napoleon. I got a few more in storage I will pull out. Also have some Scientific American stuff that's neat.

Originally Posted by aquarius31

Would love to see some more non Harpers or Leslies woodcuts. Anyone?


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[SD]

Curve ball gun. Unfortunately its just a cutting. The paper also had a baseball cannon illustration.

[doug.goodman]

Here's one from The Graphic April 18, 1874 and I also collect some cricket stuff so a woodcut from The Illustrated London New May 12, 1849

[aquarius31]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Here's one from The Graphic April 18, 1874 and I also collect some cricket stuff so a woodcut from The Illustrated London New May 12, 1849

Very nice Doug!


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[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by SD

Curve ball gun. Unfortunately its just a cutting. The paper also had a baseball cannon illustration.

Here is the full page :

[SD]

Not a wood cutting, but 1892 article about pitching. Talks about pitching angles, curve balls & strategy.