Stereoscopic baseball cards

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Does anyone collect the baseball cards made for viewing with a stereoscope. Or for post war: ViewMaster and similar cards?

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Posted By: jay behrens

I've never seen a baseball sereoscope, but have bought a number of of them featuring Native Ameircans. I'd love to have a baseball stereoscope. The closest thing I've seen to one would be an old eye doctor's exam kit that a lot of various pics for testing your eyesight and one of the pics was Babe Ruth.

Jay

Wow upside down is Mom. Mom upside down is what dad wants to see.

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Jay, Id give you the link, but Im not sure how to do that. If you search thru google for baseball stereos you will find several by Lynn Skeels. I think they are great.

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Posted By: effe

http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=153652&messageid=1026071819
Maybe he'll repost the image

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Posted By: Jason

Hi guys,

I don't have too many but here are a few form my collection for your perusal. The last few images are not my own but ones I have come across in the past.

Image 1 1870's Stereoview Tilton NH Baseball Game
Image 2 1870's Baseball 1st Division Refuge Club of Rochester NY
Image 5 Late 1860's Unidentified BBC Stereoview
Image 3 1870c Stereoview East Hampton Mass
Image 4 Late 1860's Unidentified BBC Stereoview

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Posted By: Peter Thomas

I played High School baseball against Tilton in the late 50's and 1960. The field was and still is in a different place, but those buildings are are still there, surrounded by what have become huge trees.

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Posted By: hankron

Baseball stereoviews are collectable though not nearly as as expensive as cabinet cards or CDVs. The ones Jason posted are some fine early examples. Baseball stereoviews can be found from the 1860s and were made into the 1900s. There are examples showing Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig ... Though the collector would have to learn how to judge the date (just like with tintypes), stereoviews are rarely faked like baseball cards-- which, of course, is nice for the potential collector.

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Posted By: Jason

Hey Pete, that's interesting! Have you any modern images of the buildings? I have included a close up of the game at Tilton for you below.

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Posted By: Julie

and some stereo photos--but they were BORING. Still, it was a gas seeing everything in 3-D.

Also, young'uns. travelling to Selma, Alabama for Christmas in 1940, I rode on a coach car (we had to change cars to sleep), that was lit with GAS LIGHTS. My dad told me to remember it, so I could tell my grandchildren about it.

Really thieving today, aren't I? Thanks to J Kling, and collector.

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Posted By: Jimmy Leiderman

1867-1869
Old Point BBC
Fort Monroe, VA

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Have others, if you would like to see scans, just email me to the above address.

Happy Holidays!

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Posted By: hankron

I watched the 1940s movie 'Portrait of Dorian Gray' and one of the guys in there was sitting on a was looking at stereoviews through the viewer. At the time, most people would could only dream of visiting Niagra Falls or the Tower of London, or meeting the Queen or President, so being able to them in 3-d at home was a thrill. Stereoviews was a form of home entertainment.

For those unfamiliar with the concept, a stereoew has two photos (as you can see from above) mounted on a piece of cardbaord. The photos were photographed with the same camera, but each photo is at a slightly different angle. When viewed through a special handheld viewer, the image appears in 3-D. You can find the antique viewers at antique stores and on eBay.

Lastly, you will see several different names for the photos-- stereoviews, stereograph, stereoscopic. They are all names for the same thing. I say stereoview, but that's nothing more than personal habit.

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

Happy Holidays.....

I know IT'S NOT Baseball, but I'm sure Bobby Jones is allowed on the board............

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Posted By: DD

Personally, I'd rather have the Jones stereoview than any of the baseball ones. Thanks for posting it.

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Posted By: tim mayer

this is the coolest thread in a while, love it,,,really cool,

and the Gehrig , wow...i want that one haha

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Posted By: RobertS

Here's another view of the House of Refuge game (albeit with too much glare on the top of the curved card). It was actually an early pirated card from the 1880s, where a publisher "stole" the image from a photographer's 1870's view card:



I was able to dig up some info on this image and the House of Refuge games, mainly thanks to Jimmy Leiderman:

This stereoview card was produced by Webster & Albee Publishers of Rochester, NY in the 1880s (as per card mount style, color and printing), reproducing an 1870s stereo view first issued by Bacon & Carnall. It is perhaps the earliest photographic image of blacks playing baseball.

This photograph, which was taken by famous Rochester photographer F.W. Bacon, depicts a game at the House of Refuge, an orphanage in Rochester, New York. c. 1874. The view is similar to other stereoviews attributed to Bacon, that depict a game between "Colored" and "White" youths at the same facility. Very rare close-up photos of this same baseball game were also issued in Carte-de-Visite form by the same photographer.

The game shown in this card above was a mixed game with both African American and Caucasian players seen on the field. Dark hats were used by the black team, while the jockey style caps were worn by the white boys. Interestingly, Charles R. Webster and Josephus Albee were a major publisher of pirated copies of views.

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Posted By: Matthew Jackson

If anyone is interested I saw this one at Clean Sweep Auctions.

http://www.csauctions.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000219688

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Posted By: Robert A

David.
Thanks for explaining these. I didn't even have to ask.
Much appreciated!