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Posted By: Hankron

In this case, a studio cabinet card was photographed and made by a photography studio, and the player was photographed in the studio. The studio or photographer's name will be found printed boldly on the bottom and/or on the back.

Though some were distributed commercially to the general public, most were made for private purposes: for the player, his family or friends, the team or such. Each of these 19th studio cabinet cards of a Hall of Famer is rare to unique. And by rare I don't mean 100 in existence, I mean 3-5.