Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/King Kelly baseball card, 1888

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[edit] King Kelly Goodwin Champions card

A 1888 "Goodwin Champions" baseball card of King Kelly, one of the earliest cards using chromolithography to create multi-colored images of players.

Edit 1 by Fir0002 - removed color cast

Reason: A beautiful early baseball card that's also an interesting industrial artifact. From the Library of Congress collection at memory.loc.gov. For the full set, see my Commons user page. Proposed PotD caption:

Baseball cards have been popular advertising vehicles especially for tobacco manufacturers, but production was limited until the use of chromolithography made cheap mass production of colorful cards possible in the 1880's. This Goodwin Champions card of Boston Beaneaters catcher King Kelly from 1888 is an early example of the use of pointillism in printmaking to create a wide variety of colors with a small number of plates. The pointillist technique was later advanced to create halftoning and Benday dots.

Articles this image appears in: Baseball card, King Kelly, Pointillism
Creator: Goodwin & Company
Nominator: trialsanderrors

Support (oppose edit, no reason to change hue) — trialsanderrors 03:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Support (original, oppose edit) lovely subject, great quality scan, very informative caption. Mak (talk) 04:05, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Strong Support, per above. Jellocube27 05:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Support Not only is it beautiful and razor sharp, it's so encyclopedic that it has a very strong contribution to three almost unrelated articles. Impressive! Enuja 07:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Support per above, and nom.--Here T oHelp 12:46, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Support per all above. --KFP (talk | contribs) 15:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Strong support very striking image which is not technically flawed, and also has a very detailed caption. Ahadland 17:34, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Strong Support - great scan, pin sharp, wonderful enc. This is a perfect example of the ideal FPC - hosted on Commons, way above the resolution guidelines, perfect description, tagged impeccably, nomination flawless - even including a PotD caption. Absolutely great. I propose we add this to the WIAFP page as a shining example to new contributors and voters. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 18:13, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- Oh, and I'm sure if I post it on Commons it'll sink without a trace... ~ trialsanderrors 20:26, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
  - Try us ;-) -- Lycaon 13:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Oppose original, Support Edit 1 Surprised no one has noticed the color cast yet. --Fir0002 05:18, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Are you sure it's actually "color cast"? The image is of a paper object mass produced in the 1880s. A yellow discoloration from acidic paper is to be expected. I don't think it takes anything away from the image as it is in the original. Mak (talk) 05:52, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
  - Fwiw, the mount paper in the original photograph has a higher saturation level, almost identical to the card paper. I partially desaturated the border to create more contrast to the card, but I didn't set it all the way to zero saturation because that created an unappealing contrast. So the 60% desaturation is a compromise I found least intrusive. I've looked at pretty much the whole LoC collection since I started working on this set and I can't find any evidence that the yellowing is the result of the reproduction. The card is about as yellowed as one would expect after 120 years. ~ trialsanderrors 07:51, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Support, an excellent picture. Not certain which version would be better- I think they both look pretty good. J Milburn 11:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Support. Excellent. howcheng {chat} 20:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Support - original, excellent picture and highly encyclopedic. Moreschi ^{Request a recording?} 09:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)