19th Century Detroit Eye Candy

[kkkkandp]

Joe and Jay:

Those cabinets are wonderful to look at!

Kevin

[Leon]

Joe thanks for posting those images.
And Jay, those are off the chart cool. Thanks for sharing them. Just for that Scott will buy you a soda at the show (or a spring water if that is more your take, to eat with your rabbit food ....

[CobbSpikedMe]

Amazing pieces guys. Funny thing is, not surprising that they are coming from you two! You're collections blow me away. Thanks for sharing with us all.


AndyH

[Joe_G.]

Wow Jay, thanks for showing your near full run on the 1887 NL studio proofs. Here is the only team not yet shown (not mine).

Williamson-Chicago

As for the Detroit players in my OP . . .

Brouthers
Richardson
Rowe
Weidman

Barry, Ned Hanlon has a near identical "bat at side" pose as Rowe, easy to mistake them.

I'll post more later, far more 19th century Detroit material to share (outside of Studio Proofs).

[Joe_G.]

Round 2 shifts to Tomlinson Studio.

All Tomlinson cabinets are rare, however, the 1886 issue of portraits and action poses is fairly well documented and understood. Old Cardboard website has a nice gallery of all the 1886 cards here (note dark socks & belt in all cases).

There were new action and portrait poses taken in 1887 for new members of the team (Briody, Conway, Dunlap, Ganzel, Knowlton, Shindle, Weidman and perhaps others) but only a scant few (three) examples were previously known by me until this Weidman surfaced at the Detroit Historical Society. Note the white appearing belt and socks (true of all four 1887 action cabinets I've studied). This 1887 photo of Weidman is a uniform match for the 1887 Gray Studio photoshoot.

There were other Tomlinson cabinets in 1887 as well, portraits in suit and tie. The Detroit Historical Society has some that are new to me. These portraits were used to create the Detroit baseball currency issued in 1887 and 1888. Here we have 1887 portraits of Hanlon & Richardson.

Beyond baseball currency, these same portriats were used to create an impressive poster for Detroit's 1887 season complete with schedule, but in every case the image is reversed (looking left becomes looking right etc.). The baseball currency didn't reverse the Tomlinson portraits, but this poster did. Regardless, what a beautiful piece, new to me.

View larger image here (ability to magnify).

I'll post round 3 tomorrow/soon (if someone doesn't beat me to it).

[pro9]

Joe and Jay....thanks for posting all these cabinets. Fantastic!!!

[Joe_G.]

Round 3 shifts to game in action photos.

Here is an interesting group of 5 images from same game at Detroit's Recreation Park. A couple of these images were previously known from the Detroit News archives and labeled as being from July 4th, 1887, however, the Detroit Historical Society has records suggesting it might be a home game from 1886. The Detroit pitcher would be southpaw Lady Baldwin who beat Boston 7-3 on July 4th 1887 or could have easily been captured in 1886 (Baldwin being league leader at 42-13).

First three images show the visiting team at bat. Neat to study position of catcher, umpire, baseline captain, defense, Detroit's bench, base runners, etc. Looks like visiting team is scoring some runs.

The last two pictures show Detroit at bat, perhaps capturing moments before and after a three run homer (something that didn't occur on July 4th, 1887 game).

The images provide a rare and provide interesting view of 1880s baseball, game and stadium.