Matty photo question

[Baseball Rarities]

Ray, wow, that is a great find. I think that three of the images of Matty in uniform are known to exist, plus an additional batting pose. It would be great to see the other two (lower left and middle right) pop up.

Out of curiosity, how did you come across that image of The Sunday Telegraph?

[WillowGrove]

Great job and important information Ray.

[rholmes]

Originally Posted by Baseball Rarities

Ray, wow, that is a great find. I think that three of the images of Matty in uniform are known to exist. It would be great to see the other two (lower left and middle right) pop up.

Out of curiosity, how did you come across that image of The Sunday Telegraph?

Thanks guys.

Kevin, the Sunday Telegraph page just came from one of the free or subscription newspaper archives I use. Just endless keyword searching. This was a tough one but I knew these photos had to have been published somewhere.

By the way, you can click through any of the photos I posted above for larger scans.

[Dardevl]

As usual, the board comes through!

Amazing find Ray!

I have the middle-right photo, although a later 1920's printing from a dupe negative. The window that Matty is half-covering appears to have been darkened for newspaper production. Also, the paper caption (obviously) is mislabeled as 1904 AND attributed to Conlon.

And thank you for the "revival"! Well, worth it!

[jingram058]

It appears that all of the (what I would call) truly iconic images of Christy Mathewson came out of this photo shoot. This s81 silk premium is just one example.

[rholmes]

Close, but that (and Matty's E93 and whatever else), would have been based on this Norman Penfield (Pictorial News Co.) shot, c1903, Savannah, GA:

[jingram058]

You are quite right, sir, that is it exactly.