[Frank Baker, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]

Archive record

1 print : chromolithograph with hand-color.

About this photograph

This chromolithograph baseball card portrait depicts Frank Baker of the Philadelphia Athletics and was produced by the American Tobacco Company in 1911. The print features hand-coloring applied to the chromolithographic base.

No additional information about Baker's career, the circumstances of this portrait, or the card series is documented in the archive record. The card represents a common format of the era, when tobacco companies included such portraits as premiums in their products, though specific details about this example's distribution or the series to which it belonged are not recorded.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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