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Originally Posted by Merkle923
A refresher from somebody who saw the original Topps photo archives from years ago. They filled tens of thousands of envelopes (one per player per shoot) in thousands of hanging folders in a couple of dozen filing cabinets. The organizing was incomplete - only about half the players after "T" in the alphabet had no files. There were also boxes and boxes of unfiled, in searched envelopes.
There had to be at least a million images.
All of this was boxed and moved out of the Topps offices a decade ago and turned over to a satellite office for sale on eBay. The likelihood they could find a given player or shoot ("take requests") is almost zero. On the other hand, at the rate they sell them off they will continue to be doing this for hundreds of years.
BTW about the Don Bryant images. Somewhere there is a copy of his photo on his 1969 Topps rookie card (below) and that 1970 blacked out cap? That's a weak example of a remarkable fact. The Topps graphic artists actually worked ON the negative. So if you blanch at some of those distorted 1975 painted-on Astros cap logos? Those were done on a 2-1/2" by 3-1/2" negative with an airbrush.
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I would take a full/larger/clearer pic of just him in his 1969 card in a heartbeat....
Ugh....Thanks for the sliver of hope anyways Merkle....!