It seems that your photos were from the Oneonta Giants of 1924, or at least the players whose handwritten names I can read were on the team that year: Wilcox, Walsh, Roche, Boylan and Lobee. If so, that was a rather watershed year, because it started with the team playing semi-pro and then merging with Utica Utes, who folded at the beginning of August and whose manager, Roy Thomas, was allowed to cherry-pick players from the Utes and Giants to finish the season. The Oneonta Star reported that the city would be the smallest to have a Class B team.
I looked up the City Drug Store, which advertised itself as “The Kodak Store”, so there may be something to the idea that they developed the photos. I saw no ad for the photos, but the store advertised at least a time or two that game tickets could be purchased there. Maybe they produced them in celebration of the team's promotion to the big time, although that is belied by the appearance of one of the players in a rather heavy-looking sweater, which would have been taken long before August.
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