Legendary Live auction LOT#6 & t206

[tschock]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Agreed. Trying to read the white print against a blue background was nearly impossible. Whoever designed it didn't do a good job.

Agreed! White print on ANY color background is asking for readability issues.
Couldn't they just have had black text on a white/cream/soft background with the colored background acting as a border? Or better yet, fading into the white/cream/soft background around the black text?

[drcy]

If it's not Horner, there's a strong chance it was another prominent photographer who took the Giants portraits. It would be an established New York studio taking their team portraits. BJ Falk photographed Giants players in the early 1900s, and he's would qualify as a big name photographer.

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by drcy

If it's not Horner, there's a strong chance it was another prominent photographer who took the Giants portraits. It would be an established New York studio taking their team portraits. BJ Falk photographed Giants players in the early 1900s, and he's would qualify as a big name photographer.

Is it not safe to assume the photographer was J Hall based on the credit?

[drcy]

I just glanced at the photo and read the comments. Didn't even notice the J Hall.

I remember when the owner posted pics of this photo a few months back. The key quality is its humongous size. For old display photos, the bigger the rarer and more valuable, and that's about as big as photos got back then.

[steve B]

Just a guess, but I think it's a pasteup for a Spalding page that wasn't used. The 1909 guide has a few similar composites that use images shared with T206. None have the team name or any photographer info in the picture.

Maybe some other publication used them too?


Trying this link, the 1909 guide is available as a free e-book from google.

http://books.google.com/books?id=E6g...201909&f=false

Steve B

[drcy]

Supporting Steve's idea, I think there's a fair chance it was the original art used to make something else. What the something else might be I don't know-- could be cabinet cards, postcards, a publication picture, banquet program. If the photo includes original hand drawn design and text, that would support the original art theory. And original art composites were often oversized.

[drcy]

If you want my guess, it's an original Joseph Hall composite design used to make cabinet cards or some other items. Though most of his baseball photos date to the 1800s, he was still working in 1908. Joseph Hall is as big a name as Horner.