Help with Jackson and Wagner ID's

[Robinsol1887]

Originally Posted by drcy

Welcome to the board. As I said, with or without famous people, it's a nice college baseball photo. Early baseball photos do not have to have famous people in the to have value. If I was an NYU or Polytechnic alum, I'd scoop that one up.

The photo cabinet is an amazing condition. and it’s about to go up on the wall in my new house LOL. However if there is someone out there who is interested and scooping it up feel free to let me however if there is someone out there who is interested scooping it up feel free to let me know!

I do notice that the guy in the middle looks a lot like Walter Johnson in his early T206 cards

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I think the easiest way to go about your research is to attack it from the player end instead of the photo end. Tons have been written about both players in question yet I have never seen anything about either of them playing for any Polytechnic. That would be enough for me as opposed to hope outweighing evidence and convincing myself that I have new information about two of the most researched baseball players ever.

[Robinsol1887]

I wouldn’t say it was hope pinpointing those people I was just following my dads notes from 1980 something. I’ve tried researching Polytechnic Institute but it led me to a long history of the college and how the names were changing and I can’t pinpoint what year it would be. Based on the photographs in the photo I’m guessing really late 19th century/ early 1900s?

[Leon]

Everyone but you would say you are hoping .

Originally Posted by Robinsol1887

I wouldn’t say it was hope pinpointing those people I was just following my dads notes from 1980 something. I’ve tried researching Polytechnic Institute but it led me to a long history of the college and how the names were changing and I can’t pinpoint what year it would be. Based on the photographs in the photo I’m guessing really late 19th century/ early 1900s?

[Robinsol1887]

I suppose I would be crazy not to

[BeanTown]

For photo recognition, I would use images from the same time period to compare. Another thing I would do is go to newspapers.com and do a keyword search using the school name and the players name. Welcome to the board.

[Robinsol1887]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

For photo recognition, I would use images from the same time period to compare. Another thing I would do is go to newspapers.com and do a keyword search using the school name and the players name. Welcome to the board.

Thank you. Will do