Janesville Baseball Team

Name/Title

Janesville Baseball Team

Entry/Object ID

22.88.15

Description

Janesville Baseball Team. 5-1/2" x 3-1/2" black and white postcard photograph; ten young men posed wearing Janesville baseball uniforms, two young boys in street clothes in front row, two men wearing suits in back row; L-R: Davis, Jones, Murphy, Arnold, Shepard, Hagen, Wilkinson, Shepard and Lynch. John M. Byron, team manager, is third from right in the back row; right side front, young bat boy in basecall cap is John F. Byron, son of John M. Byron.

Context

Donated on behalf of Cecelia Hellebo, 1827 Grand Ave., St. Paul, age 80 in 1988, daughter of A.S. Hellebo (1850-1931), photographer. Correspondence on the back is not dated, from Seth, addressed to Ralph Fields, N. Mankato, Minn. John M. Byron, the team manager, was the owner of a bank in Janesville until the Great Depression, after which he moved with his family to Minneapolis. John F. Byron (b. 1899), the son of John M. Byron, later worked in his father's bank in Janesville and became the grandfather of J. Michael Byron.

Cataloged By

Pfen

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Create Date

June 15, 1999

Update Date

April 23, 2026