[Kid Elberfeld, Washington Nationals, baseball card portrait]

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1 print : chromolithograph with hand-color.

About this photograph

This chromolithograph baseball card portrait was produced by the American Tobacco Company in 1911, showing Kid Elberfeld of the Washington Nationals. The card was made using chromolithography and finished with hand-coloring, a common production method for tobacco company baseball cards of the period.

No further verified information is available about Elberfeld's career, his time with the Washington Nationals, or the circumstances of this portrait's creation. The card forms part of the baseball card sets that tobacco companies distributed with their products in the early twentieth century.

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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