A look at Jefferson Burdick's baseball card

A look at Jefferson Burdick's baseball card collection which he donated the Met Museum in NYC. One downside to the collection: most of the cards are pasted into albums and so are in poor condition.

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Jason says:

There's also a good selection of older baseball cards on flickr. Terrapin, form sportsfilter, scanned his collection of his of older tobacco cards.

» by Jason on Sep 15, 2005 at 09:14 PM

Geoff Litwack says:

I have a collection of images from the somewhat obscure 1887 Kalamazoo Bats card set, notable for its rarity and staged poses here.

» by Geoff Litwack on Sep 16, 2005 at 12:31 AM

jkottke says:

That's a great set, Geoff. Thanks for sharing it.

» by jkottke on Sep 16, 2005 at 07:25 AM

Mark Lamster says:

For the record, the Library of Congress has a wonderful collection of early cards, and it's digitized and online: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html

» by Mark Lamster on Sep 16, 2005 at 11:32 AM

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This entry was published on September 15, 2005 at 03:14 pm.

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