Extraordinary team composite carte-de-visite featuring the first professional baseball team - the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings. This extremely rare style CDV features eight identified oval portraits of players in street clothes surrounding a larger photo of team captain Harry Wright in uniform in the center. The surrounding players, each identified under his oval photo, are G. Wright, Gould, Waterman, Allison, Brainard, McVey, Leonard and Sweasey. Photographer "D. R. Town, Rockford, Ills." is marked along the bottom on the front. It is interesting to note that photographer D. R. Town also produced other CDV cards featuring baseball subjects during this era. The reverse of the card is blank. This is an extremely rare 1869 Red Stockings CDV, far rarer than the traditional CDV and trade-card team pose usually seen.