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Posted By: Richard Masson

I came across two cabinets. One is from Scholten Portraits in St. Louis, The other is from Whitman in St. Joseph. Does anyone out there know anything about these cabinets? Others issued by the same studios? Year of issue? The photos appear to be Goodwin & co. Did they lend their photos out for use by studios in other cities?

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Posted By: Richard Masson

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Posted By: barrysloate

Sometimes other studios took the photos of the ball players, often because they were local. What's most impressive is how prestigious that one studio was that won all those awards at the various expositions. You would think taking pictures of baseball players would have been beneath them.

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Posted By: Richard Masson

Imagine the prizes they could have won with Art Whitney and a dog!

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Posted By: barrysloate

One of the awards was received for their work in 1867. That certainly predates any known cabinet photos and would most likely be for something rather artsy. I like the backs of those mounts as much as the photos. There's a well known cabinet of the St. Louis Browns called "Worldbeaters" with the two greyhounds that also came from a studio that was awarded some prize for excellence. Almost sounds like St. Louis was some mecca of photography.

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Posted By: Bob Lemke

Richard, we list three St. Paul cabinets by Uhlman Studio in the minor league section of the Standard Catalog. Your Tuckerman is one of those listed. After reading some ads in back issues of TSN and Sporting Life in the late 1880s, I am inclined to believe that studios DID sometimes provide negatives or possibly prints to other studios for the production of cabinet cards, and that the traffic was not always from the boonies to N.Y.C. and Goodwin.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Richard,

Wow, those cabinets are nice - thanks for posting them.

The Tuckerman is an N172 pose, is the other player an N172 pose?

Thanks!