Late Nite Grafix, Inc. > Cigarette Baseball Cards 1887-1914 Collection

These cigarette baseball cards come from the Library of Congress's Benjamin K. Edwards Collection of 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland uniform. Other notable players include Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, King Kelly, and Christy Mathewson. 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. Publication and other forms of distribution: There are no known restrictions on publication/distribution of images of baseball cards in the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection. All of the baseball cards were published before 1923. Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division (Anything published in the U.S. before 1923 is in the Public Domain)

Harry Steinfeldt American Tobacco Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1909-1911.	Charles Comiskey D. Buchner & Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1887.	Dan Brouthers Goodwin & Co. , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1888.	Connie Mack Nadja Caramel Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1910.	Fansing American Tobacco Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1909.
Tristam Speaker American Tobacco Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1912.	Cap Anson Goodwin & Co. , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1888.	Ty Cobb American Tobacco Company, sponsor Date Created/Published: 1909-1911.	Christy Mathewson American Tobacco Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1909-1911.	John M. Ward Allen & Ginter, sponsor Date Created/Published: 1887.
Ty Cobb American Tobacco Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1909-1911.	Kid Elberfeld American Tobacco Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1909-1911.	Christy Mathewson American Tobacco Company, sponsor Date Created/Published: 1911.	Chick Gandil American Tobacco Company, sponsor Date Created/Published: 1909-1911.	King Kelly Goodwin & Co. , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1888.
Edward V. Cicotte American Tobacco Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1911.	John McGraw American Tobacco Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1909-1911.	Tyrus Raymond Cobb Honest Long Cut and Miners Extra brands , sponser Date Created/Published: 1912.	Ty Cobb American Tobacco Company , sponsor Date Created/Published: 1911.