Press photo of Ruth from 1918 season

[perezfan]

Same image was used as late as 1932, for Spalding's Official Baseball Guide. They must've done some creative and effective low-tech "photoshopping" back then to put The Babe in Yankee Pinstripes.

See link...

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Boo...AaAor3EALw_wcB

[D. Bergin]

Brown Brothers re-shot and cannibalized lots of other photographers photos.

They would also just put their stamps on the backs of other press organizations and photo studios photos.

Their stuff is generally always vintage of some sort, and pretty neat...but more of it is Type III or Type IV, then many people realize.

They were not exactly crack photographers themselves.....but were pretty good at re-shooting and re-cropping existing photos.

I don't think that should make any of it worthless, as some seem to think. Much of it is still period and pretty rare. We collect baseball cards of much more inferior quality and put huge premiums on them, despite them being, not much more then later generation printed photos and lithography.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by perezfan

They must've done some creative and effective low-tech "photoshopping" back then to put The Babe in Yankee Pinstripes

Yep, they just repainted the entire image...

But, based on the ear, I think it might actually be Joe Jackson,

[EddieP]

Yup, everyone knows that the ears are key to identifying people and it’s appearance never changes. Too bad this isn’t supported by science.

https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/...wth-as-you-age

[4scuda]

I’ve kinda got lost in the thread. So what type is the photo I posted. It sounds like I let it go way to cheap as I only bid on it, didnt win it.

[D. Bergin]

Can you post a picture of the back of the mount board it’s on?