Baseball Cards at the Library of Congress

Yup, the LOC has a lighter side. And they're proving it in this collection of 2100 baseball cards. Early baseball cards. And when I say early I mean 1887 to 1914. You can see 'em at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/bbcardsabt.html .

This seems to be one of the earlier LOC collections (it's dated 1998) and there doesn't seem to be one of those subject browsers like there is for the more recent LOC collections. Instead you can search. There are several different search forms on the search page, but the top one was for all text so I stuck with that.

I searched for Cobb. I got 14 results, most of them seeming to be cards with Ty Cobb alone. Clicking on a result will give you a card thumbnail (really tiny! Thankfully larger images are available) with the date it was published by, who it was published by (looks like mostly tobacco companies) and archival information.

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