It did cause me to take a peek through various old newspapers for cigarette cards, though. Not all cigarette cards featured base ball players or other athletes. There was a bevy of beauties. Maybe too much bevy was showing for some people. Also included are some games that the youth were playing with the cards.
I've arranged the articles chronologically.
Concerned about his parishioners' morals...
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| New York Herald - March 4, 1886 |
Street walkers...
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| New Haven Register - June 21, 1886 |
In the clink...
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| Philadelphia Inquirer - July 1, 1887 |
Up in smoke...
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| Trenton Evening Times - September 30, 1892 |
Just one camera?
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| Omaha World Herald - November 11, 1894 |
Entrepreneurs...
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| Bay City Times (Michigan) - October 27, 1895 |
Ah, flipping...
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| New York Herald - March 8, 1896 |
Countries had a say...
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| Columbus Daily Enquirer (Georgia) - March 6, 1900 |
Schools were voicing their opinions...
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| Boston Herald - May 5, 1910 |
Pitching cards. Just like pennies... (a bit blurry, but that's the best I could find)
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| Pawtucket Times - September 17, 1910 |
And then a look back (from 1925) ...
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| The Boston Herald - June 21, 1925 |
images from GenealogyBank.com
Wonderful post, Mark!
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I guess Honus Wagner had good reason to have that card of him pulled off the market to not encourage boys to smoke. It sounds like these cards were like Pokemon or Magic or sports cars: they were what you collected if you were about 10 years old.
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