Reminiscent of the Duke presidential baseball card set where photographs of known politician’s heads are placed on sports bodies. In the case of these five slides pictured in this post the same is true, the difference being that the bodies were etched/drawn and they are c.1890s/1900s football. The slides are numbered and it would be reasonable to assume there were others in the set, although they may not have all been football related.
I am not a political researcher, but one of these slides
(number 94) appears to be John Edward Kelly (1852-1933).
We have never seen any other football caricature lantern slides like these. If not one–offs, then they are certainly scarce examples.
Examples of the Duke presidential baseball cards (Grover
Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison) that are coming up at auction later this
month.
