As beautiful as it is rare this Carte de Visite featuring the very important 19th century team from Lowell, Massachusetts. Eleven players are pictured. This team of destiny was the Champions of the New England Association. Included on the roster were Sam Wright (lesser known brother of Harry and George), Crane, Sullivan, Cook, Knight, Foley, Arthur and Frank Whitney, and Hawes. Also, early collectors stamp (Henry Hovey June 8, 1934) in the form of a postmark on the reverse. Photo itself is EX-MT while mount is VG-EX with "The Invincible" written at the bottom in ink. "Morrill Photographer, Lowell" in print on the back. For those unfamiliiar Carte De Visites were small visiting card portraits (usually measuring 4 1/2 x 2 1/2") introduced by a Parisian photographer, Andre Disderi, who in late 1854 patented a way of taking a number of photographs on one plate (usually eight), thus greatly reducing production costs. (He was not actually the first to produce them; this honor belongs to an otherwise obscure photographer called Doer, from Marseilles). An outstanding piece to add to any advanced historical baseball collection.