Early Baseball Cards
Baseball cards
"Chicago Cubs Baseball Card"; "Tris Speaker Baseball Card"; "Cy Young Baseball Card"
By: Liggett & Myers Co.; American Tobacco Company
Date: 1913; 1911; 1911
Source: "Chicago Cubs Baseball Card"; "Tris Speaker Baseball Card"; "Cy Young Baseball Card". American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. "Baseball Cards, 1887–1914." Available online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html; website home page: http://www.memory.loc.gov (accessed April 9, 2003).
About the Organization: The American Tobacco Company (ATC) was formed in 1890 when five of the nation's largest cigarette producers merged. North Carolina industrialist James Buchanan Duke headed ATC and used his revamped cigarette-rolling machine to take virtually...
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1910's Media Primary Sources
The 1910's: Primary Sources
