Tobacco companies hired photographer Paul Thompson to create baseball-card imagery, and his photographs became the basis for many cards sold with cigarettes around 1910.
Sources
- Would Baseball have Become America's National Pastime Without ... (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007675750/ (loc.gov)
- https://sabr.org/latest/canale-paul-thompsons-pioneering-baseball-portraits/ (sabr.org)
- https://chapmandeadballcollection.com/a-paul-thompson-photo-stamp-primer/ (chapmandeadballcollection.com)
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