Dorm Room Photo, Circa 1911

MisterBungle

Check out all the baseball cards in this old photo!!

I found this on the Usenet. I don't know too much
about these early classic issues, but I would be
interested in knowing which of these are considered
more desirable than others in the picture.

There are a lot behind the guy's head, more beside
and below the calendar, some just to the left of the
window, and one leaning against a jar on the shelf.

Anyone want to do some ID's??



Edited for spelling.

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uyu906

Well there are certainly some T-205's and T-206's on that wall.

Where did this photo come from? What school was this?

Thanks!

Clemaz

Very cool picture. Imagine all the pin holes and tape that were put on those cards.

tarheelsnipe

"Old School" collector. OK, that was bad. The photo is too cool!

detroitfan2

The gentleman in the photo is a regular poster on these boards, so why don't you just ask Rube?

MisterBungle

Where did this photo come from? What school was this?
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I don't know what school it is, but someone on the Usenet
uploaded a bunch of turn of the Century photos in a group
I check every so often, and this was one of them.

It is a large photo, but I didn't want to reduce the size
because I was hoping someone could ID some of the
cards shown.

Be sure to scroll to the right to see the ones next to the
window.

I have one more pic from the same source to post up
later, but the cards in that one are too far behind the
subject to tell much about them.

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Edited for a typo.

bobbybakeriv

That is a cool picture. I too wonder what school it was? Very interesting...the more things change, the more they stay the same.

rube26105

<The gentleman in the photo is a regular poster on these boards, so why don't you just ask Rube?>
im not 97 yet
those are very old mosquito nets over the beds like we had in army,not that they work real good,
stuff in that pic are too cool, old medicine bottles, postcards, the brush and beveled mirror sitting on the bed
horses and carriages on postcards, zeppelin and hot air baloon on one of em,steamship,pocket watch on the shelf, and all the cards to boot!!!!!!

wish i could see the stuff closer, my big lighted 4 inch standing lamp loop will make stuff bigger to see, if i can plug it in somewhere over here,

i see 102 cards on there roughly counting behind his head, be nice to have em now

zep33

awesome picture.

thriller13

Great picture, thanks for sharing this.

JTB

Don't know why, but I'm slightly skeptical. Picture seems too clear to be that old.

pandrews

awesome photo.

Ironmanfan

<< <i>Don't know why, but I'm slightly skeptical. Picture seems too clear to be that old. >>



I agree, is that an X-Box 360 in the corner?

JTB

Look at the stack of magazines (?) on the shelf right above the jar (the jar with the T205 card conscpicuously perched against it). It looks like the magazines are in plastic bags.

mikeschmidt

Mr. Bungle is my favourite band! Danny and Theo used to give me backstage passes.

Awesome photo!

ajw

I'm far from an expert, but the third card from right in the top row looks like a Christy Mathewson pose to me.

scooter729

Looks like a Cy Young w/ glove T206 in the top row, second from right.

Also maybe a Hal Chase portrait in the top row, just over the person's head?

Awesome pic - I love it!

Bosox1976

Kind of a weird uniform for college (?). Too nice for the big house though. Perhaps it is Mr. Miyagi's dojo.

scooter729

<< <i>I'm far from an expert, but the third card from right in the top row looks like a Christy Mathewson pose to me. >>



Agreed!

MisterBungle

Here is the other photo I downloaded from the same
source.

This one looks like a military recreation room. The
other one could be a barracks also, rather than a
dorm, but it was labeled a dorm room, so that's
what I went with.

As you can see, the cards are displayed in much
the same way as the other picture, but they are
farther away from the camera, and look to be
more difficult to identify by player.

I cropped this picture to remove the rest of the
pool table and a guy in a suit standing against
the wall to the left. If anyone wants to see the
whole thing, I'll put it up, but there is really
nothing of interest to this Forum on the left.



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SDSportsFan

Interesting that in the group of T206's behind the guy's head, there's one card that isn't a T206 (and it isn't even a baseball card).

The card on the far-right of the third row is an N28 Annie Oakley.


Steve

Blackborder

T205 Mathewson in the far right bottom row.



<< <i>Kind of a weird uniform for college (?). Too nice for the big house though. Perhaps it is Mr. Miyagi's dojo. >>



Looks like a mental hospital.

ArchStanton

The pictures are very cool, but they look photoshopped. There are too many subjects in focus that are different distances from the camera.

fur72

<< <i>The pictures are very cool, but they look photoshopped. There are too many subjects in focus that are different distances from the camera. >>



What looks strange to me is the card that is perfectly square infront of what looks like a beer can, the rez i very good too. Either way cool pic.

perkdog

Im just enjoying the pics! Thank You for posting!

fur72

Actually the more I look at the photo the stranger it looks. It must be real.

Buccaneer

Some of you have to study early photography. While by the turn of the century that have progressed beyond wet-plate photography, large-format cameras were still the norm. Even up until just a few years ago, they produced superior results considering the film were either 4x5 or 8x10 sheets. In a controlled setting, like the indoor shots above, it is easy to get great depth of field. For the record, I was a landscape photographer in 1990s, shooting with a 4x5 camera that was no different than the ones they used 100 years ago.

rube26105

<Kind of a weird uniform for college (?). Too nice for the big house though. Perhaps it is Mr. Miyagi's dojo>
old bedclothes

i agree with steve, i have tons of old ww1 group pics of guys in camps and carnage of ww1 and before even, and they have incredible detail to them, just no cards though

guy standing up in the other one is definately in a pre ww1 uniform-i have enough of em, its right all the down to the weird belt clasps and leggings at the boots
have no idea if its real or not,but they are cool looking either way

pandrews

the guy sitting in the chair in the 2nd photo is Rube.

bobbybakeriv

Rube rules!!!!!!

pandrews

the other guy is Stone193.

mickeymantle24

TheCARDKid

Unbelievable!!

Just when you think you've seen everything, along comes this (I.e., the 52 Topps boxes in the Brooklyn Woolworth photo posted on here awhile ago). Shocking, something like this could turn up.

At first I thought it was someones modern dorm room (2008), with turn of the century cards.

Is the pin up girl on the right, the 1911 version of a Pam Anderson poster? lol.

The upper right corner looks like Cy Young, Mathewson, Hugth Duffy below Young? Chick Gandil on the far right. And some other hall of famers, Chase portrait, top middle, Frank Chance lower left, Evers, fourth from bottom right? And the T205's, 17 of them.

Very cool (saving to hard drive).

rube26105

that is defenitly me and mike right before we rode up san juan hill side saddle with teddy roosevelt

MisterBungle

In the first photo, on the medallion on the headboard
of the bed, there are what appears to be crossed swords.
This also hints that this may be military rather than college,
but he's not wearing any kind of uniform I'm aware of.

In the second photo, there is another hat, maybe an officer's
hat, on a shelf above the clock. Certainly not the type of hat
worn by the guy standing.

Also, can anyone identify any of the cards just left of the
window in the first picture, right above the picture of a
fish/shark on the far right??

Even though I cannot vouch that these pictures are real,
I do believe they are. The person who uploaded them
posted about 20 or so turn of the century photos into
a group that has nothing to do with baseball, or baseball
cards. None of the other pictures had anything to do
with the subject at hand, and the poster didn't point out
that there were cards in these two pictures.

It all feels right to me, but be your own judge.

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Blackborder

<< <i>
Also, can anyone identify any of the cards just left of the
window in the first picture, right above the picture of a
fish/shark on the far right?? >>




Alan & Ginter circa 1888. There's also a card from the "chickens" series on the far upper left.

WinPitcher

It is a picture of a nard (janitor) at a military academy (high school)

I that that it is a college/High school dorm room.

Nice pic thanks for sharing.


I'd hate to be the 3rd guy in that room.


Steve

rube26105

you're right, that is a crest of some sort there,wish i could get a closer pic of it,its painted over,definately something cavalry,hosre cavalry back then, all of it looks real to me, the gas lights over top of the pool table are pretty cool too ,im like steve- have to go with a army cav rotc outfit in college or military academy, there have been so many of them over the years
a reg army unit wouldnt let you have all that stuff put up all over the place,plus it would be a regular barracks with lots of bunks instead of a room with 2 occupants,

MisterBungle

Alan & Ginter circa 1888. There's also a card from the "chickens" series on the far upper left.
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Thanks!!

I didn't even notice the 5 cards in the upper left corner of the room.

This is one of those pictures where the more you study it, the more
cool stuff you find.

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rube26105

i cropped this picture to remove the rest of the
pool table and a guy in a suit standing against
the wall to the left. If anyone wants to see the
whole thing, I'll put it up, but there is really
nothing of interest to this Forum on the left

lets see the other part of the pic you took out,it might have some sort of clue in it to its id?

MisterBungle

lets see the other part of the pic you took out,it might have some sort of clue in it to its id?
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Okay, here is the whole thing.

I just noticed, while getting this picture onto Photobucket,
that there is a flag draped on the upper left of this photo.

It might not be a good idea to link the two photographs.
As I said, there were about 20 photos uploaded, and
most, I would say, are not connected in any way. These
seem to be connected, just because of the cards and the
possible military connection, but they may not be related
at all. I just don't know.



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perkdog

HARD living back in those days.

jrinck

They probably smoked a lot and got a lot of cards in the process.

rube26105

id say its the same place, the 4 part window molding is the same in both pics, that pic behind that guy prob has the name of something in the right bottom corner,but i cant make anything out of it,very cool pics

grote15

Old school photos are much sharper than present day photos, as tripods were used to let in as much light as necessary to illuminate the entire field and negatives were made of glass. I have several glass negatives from this era and the clarity of the prints from them is amazing!

elsnorto

Wait... so there is no Waldo? Well crud, there is 5 hours of my life I will never have back...

Neat photos though.

Snorto~

Allen

My dorm room had a wall that my roommate and I covered in party flyers. They were 1/4 page print outs that they would hand out to spread the word of the next house party. We would get atleast 3-4 every friday, sometimes they slid them under the door. We started sticking them on the wall and by the end of the year it was heavily covered. Everyone thought it was cool. We tore them all down when we moved out. Maybe they will be worth a bunch of money someday.

WinPitcher

a reg army unit wouldnt let you have all that stuff put up all over the place,plus it would be a regular barracks with lots of bunks instead of a room with 2 occupants,








Yup.


Steve

jmoran19

In the first picture the 4th card down in the upper left corner of the back wall looks like a Ty Cobb red portrait as his collar looks dark, think it is a Ty Cobb back?

jrinck

I like the old school porn.

WinPitcher

The guy in the second foto (not in uniform) is the same guy pictured in picture one?

If so then maybe he is not a nard but an instructor.


They look similar.

Steve