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1859 Harper’s Weekly Woodcuts

8 April 2007
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1869 Harper's Weekly Cincinnati Red StockingsThe 1859 Harper’s Weekly Woodcuts is a set of baseball team cards issued from 1859 until 1891.  There are at least 40 baseball images in the set, and likely more.  These were published in the Harper’s Weekly newspaper.  Each card size varies.  

1859 Harper's Weekly Woodcut

 

 

 

 

Some of the cards in the Harper’s Weekly set were hand tinted (painted). 

 

 


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  1. The First Baseball Card: 1869 Peck & Snyder | Baseball Cards Live said,

    on April 8th, 2007 at 1:18 pm

    […] Weekly - a nationally distributed newspaper first published in 1857 - had printed baseball woodcuts for at least a decade - the first American baseball card was circulated in 1869.  It is a team […]

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