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This collection has been online for a number of years, but this is a great place to view and learn about early tobacco cards.

The Benjamin K. Edwards Collection includes 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. Distributed in cigarette packs, these cards were the forerunners of modern sports trading cards. They portray such legendary figures of the game as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing in his Cleveland uniform. Although many of the greatest players from the first decades of professional baseball are represented, the collection does not include individual cards for either Honus Wagner or Babe Ruth.

Benjamin K. Edwards Baseball Card Collection

I'm impressed with the high quality scans of all the cards. Thanks for sharing

Oh I remember looking at these once before. I forgot all about it. Thanks for the link!