Portraits of America

[Chief Bender, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

1911·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain
[Chief Bender, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait], 1911 (Library of Congress)
[Chief Bender, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait], 1911 (Library of Congress)
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1 print : chromolithograph with hand-color ; sheet 20.2 x 14.7 cm.


This chromolithograph with hand-coloring was produced by the American Tobacco Company in 1911 as a baseball card. The print depicts Chief Bender of the Philadelphia Athletics.

The archive record provides the title, date, and physical specifications of the card but offers no further details about the subject or the circumstances of production. Without additional documentation, nothing more can be stated with certainty about Bender's career, the card series this belonged to, or the context in which such cards were distributed.

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