Union Prisoners at Salisbury, N.C. Color Lithograph of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 1863.
Source: American Memory
President Johnson Greets Washington Nationals, August 30, 1865
(Source: Baseball-Fever.Com)
Currier & Ives Print, The American National Game of Base Ball, 1866.
Western artist Lorence Bjorkland's rendering of General George Custer's 7th Cavalry playing baseball in the Black Hills while being watched by two Indian scouts. The original pencil drawing was used as the dust jacket for the book "Private Theodore Ewert's Diary of the Black Hills Expedition of 1874".
Source: Lelands.com
The American Game of Base-Ball. The Illustrated London News, August 15, 1874.
Artifact from the19th century Canadian baseball team the Guelph Maple Leafs, who dominated all competi-tion. This May 1, 1874 sheet headed "Rules and Regulations Governing the Base Ball Championship of the Dominion apparently was used as the official program. On the back of the page 2 are hand-written boxscores of two games -- one of which involved a "Ku Klux Klan" team. Guelph beat the Klan 13-4.
Source: Lelands.com
Base-Ball of the Future. Harper's Weekly, July 9,
1883.
Source:
Doc Lawson's
19th Century Base Ball Prints
Young Ladies Base Ball Club #1, c. 1890
"This is most likely 'Franklin's Young Ladies Baseball Club' which
barnstormed during 1890 and 1891."
Source:
Nineteenth-Century Base Ball Pictures on the World Wide Web