Baseball Cards at Library of Congress
November 10, 2006 by Geoff Young
Filed under History
You may already be aware of this project, but in case you aren’t, the Library of Congress has digitized and made available 2100 baseball cards from 1887-1914. According to the web site:
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.
I can’t even point you to anything in particular here. The best way to explore this is just to search and browse. Make sure you have plenty of time, though; once you get started, you may not want to stop. It’s a real escape to another era.
