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Old 07-21-2022, 12:58 PM
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Some of the kids who collected cards in the 1880s later wrote down firsthand accounts. Here is a post of mine about the best known of them, Arthur Folwell, who wrote an article for the New Yorker in 1929 about his memories of collecting cards 40 years earlier:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=202129

And here is a post with a couple of articles from Card Collector's Bulletin in the 1940s, with people's memories of collecting tobacco cards back in the 1880s:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=239836
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Some of the kids who collected cards in the 1880s later wrote down firsthand accounts. Here is a post of mine about the best known of them, Arthur Folwell, who wrote an article for the New Yorker in 1929 about his memories of collecting cards 40 years earlier:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=202129

And here is a post with a couple of articles from Card Collector's Bulletin in the 1940s, with people's memories of collecting tobacco cards back in the 1880s:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=239836
Thank you for sharing the posts again. They were very good reads. Gave insight that I thought didn't exist!
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Here's a similar postcard a couple decades after the 1889 N85 Duke's
I have about 8-10 different ones

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Here's a similar postcard a couple decades after the 1889 N85 Duke's
I have about 8-10 different ones
Someone should create a similar image - using Target, sports card distributors, and blaster boxes. Replace the kids with images of flippers carrying Pelican cases.
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Jay, that postcard is totally awesome!
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It appears that everyone wore a hat back then
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Everyone wore a hat until JFK made it fashionable not to wear one.
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Jay, that postcard is totally awesome!
Ryan I got a bunch of different ones, here's one dated 1903 on the front

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Ryan I got a bunch of different ones, here's one dated 1903 on the front


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I recall a post many years ago when this postcard was referred to as the Barry Sloate rookie card. Was funny then anyway.
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Ryan I got a bunch of different ones, here's one dated 1903 on the front
They are really really cool!

And the Barry Sloate Rookie is classic. Very funny
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