Historical Portrait

[Monte Ward, New York Giants, baseball card portrait]

1888·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain

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Archive record

1 photographic print on cabinet card mount : albumen. | Card shows John Montgomery Ward (1860 -1925), American Major League Baseball star pitcher, shortstop and manager. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

About this photograph

This cabinet card from 1888 shows John Montgomery Ward (1860-1925), identified by the archive as an American Major League Baseball star pitcher, shortstop and manager. The photograph was produced by Goodwin & Co.

The record provides Ward's name, lifespan, and his roles in baseball, but offers no further detail about his career, which teams he played for, or the circumstances of this portrait's creation. The card is an albumen print, a photographic process typical of the period.

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

About the format

Cabinet Cards Tobacco Baseball Cards

Rights & Attribution

Credit: Library of Congress

Reuse: Public domain. Free to download, print, edit and republish, commercially or otherwise. How rights work in this archive.

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