There are two composites identified as the 1888 Davenport club. One of them identifies all of the players under the photos, and shows members of the club while it played in the Central Interstate League. That club disbanded in early August. A second club, organized by the same manager (Will Lucas), later played in the Western Association for about six weeks. I spent a bit of time trying to see if the players in the second composite were from that club, but ultimately concluded they weren't. Then, after comparing the two composites, I decided that the unidentified one was probably just a mock up prepared in advance of the one for which the players were identified. The layout and the framing are identical. Both of these composites are shown below.
I recently came across a collection of cabinet cards offered at auction in the spring of 2006 at Robert Edwards. (
https://robertedwardauctions.com/auc...rd-collection/) One of the cards caught my eye - a player from Davenport in 1888 identified as Owen Williams - the same as one of the photos used in the unidentified Davenport composite. So now it seems the unidentified composite may be an earlier version of the Davenport club than the one with players identified. So time to revisit the 1888 Davenport composites.