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Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection at the Library of Congress
Series N162: Goodwin Champions (Goodwin & Company, 1888)
Note: the N162 series contains 50 cigarette cards depicting athletes from a variety of sports, including eight baseball players.

King Kelly – catcher, Boston Beaneaters, National League
Call number: LOT 13163-08, no. 1; Digital ID: bbc 0554f

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID bbc.0554f
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Taken from full-size tiff file
Edges: skewed to set vertical/horizontal
Borders: Desaturated (-60), lightened (+20), contrast enhanced (+10), cropped (10px border)
Card: Contrast enhanced (+5), blemish under moustache manually repaired
Image downsampled nonproportional to 2500x1400px, 100ppi
Converted to jpg at 8/10, 5 progressive scans

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:36, 19 March 2007	1,400×2,500 (1.37 MB)	Trialsanderrors	(slight contrast)
	02:22, 16 March 2007	1,400×2,500 (1.36 MB)	Trialsanderrors	(Reverted to earlier revision)
	22:08, 15 March 2007	1,400×2,500 (1.39 MB)	Trialsanderrors	(Contrast)
	09:12, 15 March 2007	1,400×2,500 (1.36 MB)	Trialsanderrors	(Fixed)
	09:17, 1 December 2006	1,695×2,984 (5.7 MB)	Trialsanderrors	({{Information \|Description= King Kelly baseball card \|Source= [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html Baseball Cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection] \|Date= 1888 \|Author= Goodwin & Company \|Permission=Copyright expired \|other_versions= }} )