22.88.15

Print, Photographic

1908 Approximate

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, Lynch, Shepard. John M. Byron, team manager, is third from right in the back row; right side front, young bat boy in baseball cap is John F. Byron, son of John M. Byron.

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.