Portraits of America

[Paul Cook, Louisville Colonels, baseball card portrait]

1888·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain
[Paul Cook, Louisville Colonels, baseball card portrait], 1888 (Library of Congress)
[Paul Cook, Louisville Colonels, baseball card portrait], 1888 (Library of Congress)
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1 photographic print on cabinet card mount : albumen.


This 1888 cabinet card shows Paul Cook of the Louisville Colonels, produced by Goodwin & Co. The photographic print uses the albumen process, mounted on card stock in the cabinet card format common for baseball cards of the period.

Beyond what appears in the cataloguing record itself, nothing further is known about Paul Cook's career with the Colonels, the circumstances of this portrait, or details of this particular card's production within Goodwin & Co.'s output.

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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