Jefferson Burdick
Baseball and trading card collector and cataloguer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jefferson R. Burdick (1900–1963) was an American electrician and a collector of printed ephemera, including postcards, posters, cigar bands, and other types of printed materials dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 1960s. He is best known for collecting trading and baseball cards in The American Card Catalog, otherwise known as the ACC.
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Jefferson Burdick | |
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Born | 1900 |
Died | 1963(1963-00-00) (aged 62–63) |
Occupation | Collector |
Known for | Trading cards collector |
Notable work | The American Card Catalog |
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Burdick is often considered to be the greatest card collector in history,[1] and has been called "The Father of Card Collecting."[2]