Mark Rucker has created a series of boxed collections featuring the most wild and wonderful imagery from The Rucker Archive. Each Gift Edition contains twelve 11” x 14” prints on high-quality archival paper, and comes in a specially-designed box containing a prospectus (a booklet about that particular edition) and explanations of each print.
Each Gift Edition title is limited to 25 copies and is signed and numbered. The Baseball Editions each celebrate the 19th Century game as rarely seen today, and the North Americana Editions draw on a wide variety of historical lithography and documentary photography.
If you are interested in purchasing a reproduction of a specific image from this site on the finest, archival, acid-free paper, please contact us at the phone number or email listed at the bottom of the page.
Same goes for any of the items listed below; contact us at the phone number or email listed at the bottom of the page.
This is a collage of products produced from images licensed from The Rucker Archive over the years. If you are interested in purchasing a reproduction of a specific image on…
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Original baseball prints from 1980 have just been discovered in a box up high on a shelf. “Switch” was produced from a drawing by Mark Rucker of Mickey Mantle batting…
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The little biliken cartoon character, popular in the States in the early 20th Century, became the logo for a brand of Cuban cigarettes in the 1920s. Those cigarettes and the…
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Published in 1988, this book gives a photo tour of the photographic cards produced in baseball’s early years, in the 1860s and 1870s. The 64 page book is now considered…
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The Portfolios featured below are the Archive’s newest publishing project, one that brings the art of the portfolio back to life using modern technology and the finest materials available. Each…
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Those who know and love the early game of baseball understand its place in the booming, bustling mid-Nineteenth Century east coast of North America. For the new National Pastime reflected…
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The masquerade ball has connections to the Carnival stretching back to the 12th century, when the Pope and the ruling classes of Rome watched a parade of citizens progressing through…
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With this portfolio, in the tradition of 19th century publishing, The Rucker Archive brings together thirty years of research and exploration to present a collection of some of the aesthetically…
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From the charismatic and transformative years when the classical ballet grew from an adjunct to the Opera into a center stage, stand-alone art form, we present a visual record of…
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Imagine visiting your local farmer’s market somewhere in Maryland in 1875. In one section of the market you would be confronted with stacks of crates containing scrap tobacco, each identified…
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Contact The Rucker Archive or call (250) 767-0087 to learn more about or view this entire portfolio. Price: $495 including shipping
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Who would guess that it was a lowly piece of tin was an elemental turning point in the history of photography. The new and inexpensive form of photograph, invented in…
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Advertising can be an exploitative endeavor. Advertising attempts to alter our minds, to exchange the past for the present and vice versa, and to offer fantasy as reality. Advertising uses…
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