Portraits of America

[Hughie Jennings, Detroit Tigers, baseball card portrait]

1911·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain
[Hughie Jennings, Detroit Tigers, baseball card portrait], 1911 (Library of Congress)
[Hughie Jennings, Detroit Tigers, baseball card portrait], 1911 (Library of Congress)
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1 print : chromolithograph with hand-color.


This chromolithograph baseball card with hand-coloring was produced by the American Tobacco Company in 1911. It shows Hughie Jennings of the Detroit Tigers.

The archive record provides no further information about Jennings's role with the team, his career, or the circumstances of the portrait. The card typifies the tobacco company's practice of including baseball cards with their products during this period, though the specific series or set is not identified in the cataloguing.

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


Tobacco Baseball Cards

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