Baseball card style tobacco label of Clark Griffith. Depicted by illustration.
This public domain playing card comes from the Baseball Cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection from the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress. Published as a tobacco label, it frames an illustrated portrait of Clark Griffith in a blue jersey and blue cap.
This image was published in 1911 by the American Tobacco Company as a tobacco label. Due to the pre-1923 publication date, this image is in the public domain.
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User Descriptions
03.23.10
The picture looks like a card. There are two boarders in it. The outer boarder is colored with brown and the inner one is orange in color. The man is pictured in this area. On the top left corner of the image capital “c” is written. On the top right side of the picture ‘reds’ is written. In that ‘r’ is written in capital and other letters are written in small. On the bottom of the man’s photo ‘ payt siffith’ is written. It looks like a signature. Also it was not written in straight. So we can say that it is a signature. The signature that appears in the picture might be the signature of the same person present in the picture or might be others who pictured that photo. At the bottom of the signature it is written as ‘of the cincinnati nationals’. All the letters are in capital. The man in the photo is not looking straight. He had a cap on his head. We can see some hair of him. His eyes are sharp and his lips are laughing. His shirt is blue in color. His cap is also of the same color. To his color a button is also there.
03.27.10
The image is of a very old baseball card. The card looks to have a rough texture and is just a little shabby. The border is in brown and the main color is a bright orange. In the center is a painted portrait of the baseball player Charley? Griffith. His name is shown by his signature at the bottom. Mr. Griffith played for the Cincinnati Nationals and is wearing an old fashioned uniform. He is squinting in the photo and looks like a railroad laborer who has been hardened by life. Even though he plays for Cincinnati I would guess that his family comes from the Pittsburgh area because he reminds me of my family from that area. This card makes me slightly nostalgic for my childhood when I spent time with my father and grandfather. I am sure that they would have more to say about this card than I. The card does remind me of the story my father told me about my great grandfather Boram being the great ambidextrous pitcher for the Dayton minor league team of the time. I am also reminded of the more recent story of my fathers brother procuring the glove of a quasi famous baseball player that shares our last name. I have not seen it, but the glove should be about as old as this card.