Charles Conlon photos with Underwood & Underwood stamp

[repsher]

Hi Guys,
I know there are some really great photo experts here and I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this topic since I can't find the information anywhere else.

I recently came across a couple of photos that looks like they are taken from Charles Conlon negatives but have the Underwood & Underwood stamp on the back.

This is the Garland Braxton Underwood & Underwoood:

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And this is the Garland Braxton from the Charles Conlon collection site:

http://www.theconloncollection.com/

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Here is the Mark Koenig Underwood & Underwood:

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And this is the Mark Koenig from the Charles Conlon collection:

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Is anyone aware of what the Conlon-Underwood & Underwood connection was?


Thanks,
Ryan

[Hankphenom]

Conlon was a freelancer. He sold his stuff to practically every baseball publication there was. I would assume that he either took these photos for Underwood and Underwood, or that they were serving as syndicators for them.

[drc]

The big news services got their photos from many places. They had their own photographers but also bought and distributed others.

[repsher]

So would you say these photos would be classified as Type 1 Conlon photos or Type 1 U&U photos that just happen to have Conlon images? Or something else?

[drc]

You could call it a U&U photo shot by Conlon.

[repsher]

I just had another thought about these photos. I now believe that U&U had Conlon photos that they then took a picture of, creating a copy negative. Then they could make as many copies as they want to distribute.

I came up with this because you can see a serial number in the U&U photos, when in fact the image on the Conlon negatives would be much larger.

So this would make these photos Type IV even though they are of the era? And this now makes me question a lot of the photos in my collection.