Studio Portrait of a Baseball Player in Uniform, 1885-1889
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Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867, and people soon preferred these photographic prints on cardboard stock to the earlier, smaller cartes-de-visite. American commonly collected and exchanged cabinet photographs through the early 1900s, often to commemorate friends or family. A young man dressed in a baseball uniform posed for this portrait in a Grayling, Michigan, studio in the late 1880s.
Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867, and people soon preferred these photographic prints on cardboard stock to the earlier, smaller cartes-de-visite. American commonly collected and exchanged cabinet photographs through the early 1900s, often to commemorate friends or family. A young man dressed in a baseball uniform posed for this portrait in a Grayling, Michigan, studio in the late 1880s.
Artifact
Cabinet photograph
Date Made
1885-1889
Subject Date
1885-1889
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2002.55.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Technique
Albumen process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 6.5 in
Width: 4.188 in
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