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Originally Posted by tnfoto
Thanks, Chickazoola. I learned from Cusick that it is from a ca. 1907 Brighton, IL team photo, and that photo could be found in an Alton, IL newspaper from 1958. According to Cusick, the caption in the 1958 printing was incomplete and did not identify Bernard.
I'm still hoping that one of the IL newspapers printed a photo of him following a tennis, golf or bowling tournament, but I haven't located one yet.
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Okay so I located the photo that I believe Cusick was referring to and it is a totally different image than the one we have for Bernard. Notably the Brighton players uniforms are totally different, which the "Bernard" image shows a player with Pegs written on it.
Because of the number "8" written on on the "Bernard" image, I'm very confident that it originates from one of the Reach or Spalding guides. They commonly published team photos with numbers on them to indicate which player was pictured. The image looks cropped from a team photo.
I've done some looking but haven't found a match.