Mike Donlin New York Giants Baseball Card Portrait Frame Style:Ebony Frame 1883 — a chromolithograph of

1883 — a chromolithograph of Frederick Douglass flanked by Senators Blanche Bruce and Hiram Revels

his face arranged for a nation that had not yet decided whether to crown him or simply thank him

the weight of a republic still inventing its own iconography

Declaration of Independence

as a husband in his own parlor

Mike Donlin New York Giants Baseball Card Portrait Frame Style:Ebony Frame 1883 — a chromolithograph ofMike Donlin New York Giants Baseball Card Portrait 2 a deadball era portrait of "Turkey Mike," the Giants' swaggering outfielder who hit like a matinee idol and lived like one too, vanishing to vaudeville stages between seasons. The card carries that John McGraw era New York glamour: bat cocked, cap squared, the chromolithograph blush of a man who knew the crowd was watching. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives