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Goodwin & Company was an American tobacco manufacturer from New York City. Initially "E. Goodwin and Brother", the company was founded before the American Civil War. It was known for its cigarette brands "Gypsy Queen" and "Old Judge". In 1890, the company was merged, along with four others, into James Buchanan Duke's American Tobacco Company to create an American monopoly on tobacco product manufacturing and retail.

Overview

Charles Goodwin Emery (died 1915), who had the principal interest in Goodwin & Company, became Treasurer of the American Tobacco Company. Emery built a showplace "castle" known as Calumet Castle at the Thousand Islands (Clayton, New York) and was principal investor in the grand New Hotel Frontenac nearby.

The company's tobacco trading cards, depicting baseball players, other athletes, and a variety of social scenes and portraits are collectibles. In 1887, Goodwin & Co. were among the first to issue trading cards to promote their brands, first using sepia-toned photographic albumen prints, and later chromolithographic reproductions of multi-colored etchings.

In 2011, Upper Deck Company reactivated the Goodwin Champions line, primarily to compete with Topps' revival of the Allen & Ginter brand. Similar to the original Goodwin Champions set, the revived line primarily features athletes from various American sports.

Card sets

• Old Judge, 1887–90 (N172), the first major set of baseball cards, comprising over 2,000 images and using albumen photoprints.
• Gypsy Queen, 1887 (N175), using the same images as the "Old Judge" cards, but advertising Goodwin's other brand
• Goodwin Champions, 1888 (N162), a set of 50 athletes in various disciplines, the first Goodwin set to use colored chromolithography.
• Old Judge Cabinets, 1888–89 (N173), a large-formatted set of albumen print photographs that could be retrieved in exchange for mailed-in coupons.

Bibliography

• Stephen Wong, Susan Einstein: "Smithsonian Baseball: Inside the World's Finest Private Collections"; HarperCollins, 2005 (ISBN 0060838515).
• Baseball cards at the Library of Congress
• "Charles Goodwin Emery," article in Paul Malo's Fools' Paradise.

References

1. ^ A Trust to Bust: American Tobacco Company Organized, 1890 on the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, 31 Jan 2016
2. "Calumet Castle". New York Heritage. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
3. "Thousand Islands Publications - Rex Ennis".
4. "Hotel Frontenac". New York Heritage. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
5. Seideman, David. "Winning The 128-Year-Old Old Judge Baseball Card Lottery". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
6. ^ Hanley, Dean; Hamlin, Allyson (2011-04-12). Before There Was Bubble Gum: Our Favorite Pre-World War I Baseball Cards. Dean's Cards. ISBN 978-0-9835432-0-6.
7. Deninger, Dennis (2012-11-12). Sports on Television: The How and Why Behind What You See. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-26225-8.
8. Hawkins, Ann R.; Bistline, Erin N.; Ives, Maura; Blackwell, Catherine S. (2021-11-01). Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-8556-0.
9. Devereaux, Peter; Congress, Library of (2018-10-23). Game Faces: Early Baseball Cards from the Library of Congress. Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 978-1-58834-634-6.

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