Early Hobby Baseball Card Collectors

[BeanTown]

First Net54 Dinner or close to it.. Many still collecting

[Leon]

Lot's of old hobby friends there....
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[EddieP]

Benjamin K. Edwards. His cards currently reside in the Library of Congress. The collection was featured in the CBS Evening News in 2012

This collection from the Library of Congress features early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. Cigarette card collector Benjamin K. Edwards preserved these baseball cards in albums with more than 12,000 other cards on many subjects. After his death, Edwards' daughter gave the albums to noted poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division in 1954.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/bas...m-1880s-1910s/

From the LOC Website:

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This collection presents a Library of Congress treasure—2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland uniform. Other notable players include Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, King Kelly, and Christy Mathewson.
Cigarette card collector Benjamin K. Edwards preserved these baseball cards in albums with more than 12,000 other cards on many subjects. After his death, Edwards' daughter gave the albums to noted poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division in 1954.

[T206Collector]

16 years ago I did a couple of interviews with hobby legends Lionel Carter and Jeff Morey. You can listen to those on my website at:

https://www.signedt206.com/lionel-carter-interview

https://www.signedt206.com/jeff-morey-collection

I also visited the Leopold Morse Goulston collection of T206 cards at the New York Public Library and wrote an article about it (and even donated some missing T206 cards to that collection). Goulston had a gorgeous Wagner which is still in that library.

You can see the article here:

https://www.signedt206.com/goulston-t206-collection