Baseball team posed with gloves and mitts, Allen, Nebraska, 1909

Nine baseball players pose with a tenth man in a white shirt and dark bow tie. Three players stand behind four seated on wooden chairs, with two sitting cross-legged in front. Their shirts carry large ALLEN lettering; the standing player at left also wears a C below the town name. Gloves and mitts rest on laps and at the players’ knees.

The group is arranged against a horizontally slatted backdrop beside a wooden doorway. The hand-lettered caption reproduced along the bottom reads “BASE BALL TEAM 1909 ALLEN, NEB.” It establishes the team’s town and year, but neither the players nor the building are named. The bow-tied man’s role is not identified.

This real photographic postcard has a divided reverse printed “POST CARD,” “CORRESPONDENCE HERE,” and “ADDRESS ONLY.” It bears no photographer’s or publisher’s credit and has no message, address, stamp, or postmark. A pencil code along the upper reverse supplies no further identification of the scene.

Creases affect the lower-left corner and side margins, with small surface losses where the lower-left fold crosses the image edge and caption band. Otherwise sound, with the group and caption clearly legible.