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Baseball Team Cards from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection

October 20, 2015

By Erin Florence

Collections Management Assistant Erin Florence explores the baseball team cards produced by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company in 1913.
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Essay

Baseball Cards in the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection

November 1, 2018

By Allison Rudnick

Though Jefferson R. Burdick allegedly never attended a baseball game, a major part of his vast gift to The Met is one of the largest collections of baseball cards now held by any public institution.
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Essay

Sardis

October 1, 2004

By Colette Hemingway

[Sardis] was for many centuries a significant point of juncture between the Greeks of the Aegean and the Persians.
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A Blissful Idyll: The Beauty of The Stuttgart Playing Cards

March 17, 2016

By Tim Husband

Curator Tim Husband discusses one of the luxury decks of playing cards in the exhibition The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430–1540.
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Sport and Spoof: The Cloisters Playing Cards

April 13, 2016

By Tim Husband

Curator Tim Husband highlights the artistry of and reveals the meaning behind an exceptional deck of playing cards featured in the exhibition The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430–1540.
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Filling In History: Conserving Fifteenth-Century Tibetan Initiation Cards, Continued

January 9, 2015

By Rebecca Capua

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From Archimedes to Zansz: Inventor Souvenir Cards from the Burdick Collection

November 2, 2015

By Allison Rudnick

Assistant Curator Allison Rudnick highlights the World's Inventors series of souvenir cards produced by Allen & Ginter Cigarettes during the 1880s.
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A First Look at On The Ropes: Vintage Boxing Cards from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection

August 14, 2018

By Allison Rudnick

Assistant Curator Allison Rudnick provides an overview of On the Ropes, the first exhibition of the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection to showcase boxing cards, which feature some of the most celebrated boxers of the last two centuries.
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Eastern Religion Meets Western Science: Conserving Fifteenth-Century Tibetan Initiation Cards

January 5, 2015

By Angela Campbell

Assistant Conservator Angela Campbell outlines the conservation treatment applied to a Tibetan initiation card currently on display in the exhibition Sacred Traditions of the Himalayas.
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Living by Their Wits: Cards Games in the Middle Ages

February 24, 2016

By Tim Husband

Curator Tim Husband discusses the games played using the early European in the exhibition The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430–1540.
Press

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Launches New Podcast, Immaterial

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Exhibitions

Painters in Paris

The School of Paris revealed, with more than one hundred paintings culled from the Museum's collections.

Press

PAINTERS IN PARIS: 1895-1950

This press kit for Painters in Paris: 1895-1950 includes a general release about the exhibition, immediately following, as well as a statement from Aetna, the exhibition's sponsor.
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Sports Cards

Burdick's immense collection includes all types of sports cards ranging from football, boxing, basketball, baseball, and swimming, to equestrian sports and sailing.

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Famous Faces

Another dominant focus of Burdick's collection was stage-and-screen celebrity cards, which document the progression of printed media.

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Baseball at The Met

The baseball cards collected by Jefferson R. Burdick represent the most comprehensive collection outside of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

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On the Ropes: Vintage Boxing Cards from </br>the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection

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July 2–October 21, 2018

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Sebring, Brooklyn, National League, from the Baseball Players (Ramlys) series (T204) issued by the Mentor Company to promote Ramly and T.T.T. Turkish Cigarettes

Issued by Mentor Company, Boston

Date: 1909
Accession Number: 63.350.246.204.81

Image for Paskert, Left Field, Cincinnati, National League, from the Baseball Players (Ramlys) series (T204) issued by the Mentor Company to promote Ramly and T.T.T. Turkish Cigarettes
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Paskert, Left Field, Cincinnati, National League, from the Baseball Players (Ramlys) series (T204) issued by the Mentor Company to promote Ramly and T.T.T. Turkish Cigarettes

Issued by Mentor Company, Boston

Date: 1909
Accession Number: 63.350.246.204.99