Help with Jackson and Wagner ID's

[Leon]

A new member contacted me about these pictures/photos. Jackson and Wagner are the suspects. Thoughts?

[drcy]

You know the answer, Leon.

[Robinsol1887]

What does that mean ?

[Dewey]

Originally Posted by Robinsol1887

What does that mean ?

It means you are the new member and the answer is no.

Did either attend Polytechnic Institute in New York? No.

[drcy]

Beyond that no one in the photo looks like either of the two, that is a college neither of them went to. The famously illiterate Jackson didn't go to college, much less up to one up North.

However, the Polytechnic Institute is now New York University's engineering school, so you can say that's sort of an NYU baseball team-- and college baseball photos are definitely collectible.

[Robinsol1887]

There was a Gilbert Polytechnic Institute in Pennsylvania from the mid 1880s through the early 1920s. Honus was from Pennsylvania. I compared his face to his Warner and Patterson photos and there is a resemblance.

[Robinsol1887]

Originally Posted by Dewey

It means you are the new member and the answer is no.

Did either attend Polytechnic Institute in New York? No.

There were many Polytechnic Institutes in the United States in the late 19th century early 20th century. One of which was Gilbert polytechnic institute in Pennsylvania. Click the link below

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...CSxanIAlibUKmU

[Robinsol1887]

https://broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/edward-c-dana


To the reply for Poly institute only being in New York: here is a cited quote from the above site about photographers from the late 19th century :

Dana was particularly fortunate in securing the services of George A. Connor as his head printer. Dana collaborated with Connor in experimenting with printing processes, inventing a form of carbonette negative (collodion paper squeezed onto ground glass) and then Ivorette print, a brilliantly clear portrait printed on half-gloss cream cards. The broad notice Dana received from his placements in newspapers and magazines enabled him to undertake expansion in the 1890s. He opened branches in Pittsburgh and Brooklyn (run by operator George P. Roberts) and was in the midst of another relocation of his headquarters up Broadway when he died at age 44. His chief assistant at the time of his death was J.E. Giffin.