Baseball Original ABNER DOUBLEDAY CDV & Photo Album

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This photo album was found at a flea market in Northern California. It contains cabinet cards, cdvs and tintypes. T are fifty (50) images. Offered is everything that was found. The center piece is a cdv of GENERAL ABNER DOUBLEDAY who many have credited as being the founder of Baseball. Written on back "from photographic negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery." It measures 2 1/4 by 3 1/4 inches. It appears to have been cut. Please note, photo glare is caused by protective coverings. The original album that contained all images is included. Photos have been taken out and placed in binder with protective pages. All photos were in this album. The album is damaged. We have not spent anyw near a suffcient amount of time researching the people named in this album to arrive at any conclusions as to how they relate to Abner Doubleday or to give the collection any semblance of historical justice. It is apparent that the album belonged to KATE or KATIE D. DOUBLEDAY. Approximately 30 of the images have writing on them. Some are names, some are short notes, a few just dates. T are at least five notes or references on back of photos to Kate or Katie including two in 1875 from her sister. "To my dear little sister Katie. Taken June 1874 age 17 yrs, 3 wks, etc...." (photo taken by L. Sherman in New York) ANOTHER, "To my dear little sister and faithful follower in all sorts of mischief, BUDGIE (unsure of spelling). "Oct 29th, 1877." Brand Portraits, Chicago. "To Katie, think of the ape that this picture represents. E. Sherman Aug. 1875." Washington D.C. A family named and photographed often in this album is "Davisson" sometimes "Davison." T is a cabinet card "Mama Davisson to Katie June 11lth 78." New York Photographer, Alman & Co. Another, "A.W. Davisson to Kate May 1874" Chicago photo. ALSO obituary on back of photo of same gentleman "Death of Dr. Alfred W. Davisson October 1894." Obit reads in part "Dr. Davisson was eighty years old and was born in Xenia, Ohio May 32, 1815. He went to Chicago in 1841 and was one of the founders of Rush medical college of that city...." Also "Jennie Ennis Davisson Rochester N.Y. Sept 1886." Another Rochester New York cdv on back "Esther Orr Hood Summer of 1874 Great Grandmother of Imogene Doubleday......L. Sherman photo." T are other names and other cities. T are notes that our old eyes cannot decipher and we are sure t are many clues as to how these are all tied to Abner Doubleday that we have not been able to imagine. Five (5) tintypes......one has writing on back. Twenty one (21) cdvs including ABNER. Seventeen (17) cabinet cards. Nine (9) other. NO RESERVE. $15.00 includes priority mail and insurance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Abner Doubleday ( June 26 , 1819 - January 26 , 1893 ), was a career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War . He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter , the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg . Gettysburg was his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men. In San Francisco, California , after the war, he obtained a patent on the cable car railway that still runs t In his final years in New Jersey , he was a prominent member and later president of the Theosophical Society . His most lasting claim to fame is the popular myth that he invented baseball , which has been debunked by almost all sports historians, although Doubleday himself never made such a claim. read more

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