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Posted By: barrysloate

When doing early photo identification, particularly with CdV's, we usually assume that the city of the photographic studio is in close proximity to where the ballclub was located. But what I always question is did ballplayers and teams only have their picture taken in their home town? Couldn't a ballplayer with free time on a road trip take a photograph in another city? For example, in my current auction I have a team CdV with a photographer's stamp from Bonney, Indiana. For that reason I've described it as a team from Indiana. But the only thing I know for sure is where the studio is located. The team's location is merely conjecture. And with a lot of these cabinet photographs we can see that ballplayers may have had their pictures taken in cities other than where they played.