Louis Laroy from Sporting Life Cabinets (W600)

Sporting Life

ca. 1905–06 · Commercial photolithograph · Drawings and Prints

Louis Laroy from Sporting Life Cabinets (W600). Issued from 1902 to 1911 by Sporting Life Newspaper Company, Philadelphia. Set consists of over 680 unnumbered cards. Player portraits are by photographer Carl Horner. Black and white or color tinted player photo. Player's name, position and team printed below studio portrait. Player shown either in uniform or in street clothes. Mounted on a thick cardboard frame. Issued in individual glassine envelopes. Ornately embossed mounts found in one of four design variations. Blank back. Sponsor ad stamped on back of some cards.

Artist

Sporting Life

Date

ca. 1905–06

Medium

Commercial photolithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick