Show your cabinet cards

[ramram]

1869 Kearsarge BBC Cabinets. Possibly the earliest known baseball cabinet photos. Cabinet photos were in their infancy in the late 1860's and these photos retain the red perimeter line that was typical to the CDV's that preceeded cabinet cards. These cabinets were produced by Kimball Bros. of Concord N.H. All of the players are identified (there are a total of 11 cabinet photos of different players) as well as their positions. One of the players is Howard Kimball, quite likely one of the "Kimball Bros" that produced the images.

Rob M.

Three of the eleven cabinet photos -

Howard Kimball:
Howard Kimball.jpg

M. Harvey:
M. Harvey.jpg

George Clough - Capt. - Shortstop:
George Clough - Capt. - Short Stop.jpg

[joeadcock]

Nice images Rob

[kdixon]

The Wheat has no writing on the back but I am guessing he is about 15.

[kdixon]

Here is Zach Wheat's four month old and 1 year old baby pictures...his real rookie cards...

[slidekellyslide]

My Nebraska Indians cabinets....bummed that I got outsniped on one I need on ebay tonight.




Same photo as the above, but it is a smaller sized cabinet and if you look closely the date was changed from 1901 to 1902 on the chest protector

[kdixon]

Here is another Zach Wheat studio photo.

[Bobsbats]

Anonymous Cabinet front.jpg

Crawford W600 front.jpg

[john.clowes]

That photo of Zach Wheat swinging has a 3-dimentional quality to it. Truly amazing look for the time, and it really stands out. Thanks so much for sharing.

[Jaybird]

Cuban Amateur League

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by ramram

1869 Kearsarge BBC Cabinets. Possibly the earliest know baseball cabinet photos. Cabinet photos were in their infancy in the late 1860's and these photos retain the red perimeter line that was typical to the CDV's that preceeded cabinet cards. These cabinets were produced by Kimball Bros. of Corcord N.H. All of the players are identified (there are a total of 11 cabinet photos of different players) as well as their positions. One of the players is Howard Kimball, quite likely one of the "Kimball Bros" that produced the images.

Rob M.

Three of the eleven cabinet photos -

Rob, Michael's been reading this thread

1866 Baseball cdv's

[ramram]

Hey Scott, If Michael wants to add my group to his "earliest card" collection, he's welcome to it for a small percentage of what he's asking for his CDV set!

Rob M.