Howie Kamnitz, Pittsburgh, NL (baseball) – Historic Reproduction
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Howie Kamnitz, Pittsburgh, NL (baseball). It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Howie Kamnitz, Pittsburgh, NL (baseball)
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Howie Camnitz, whose name appears as "Kamnitz" in the title and "Camnitz" on the original caption, pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates for most of the first decade and a half of the twentieth century. The Pirates won the 1909 World Series during his years with the club. This glass negative came from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news pictures to newspapers across the country, so it shows how player portraits were made and circulated in the 1910s. The 1911 date is an estimate based on later research by baseball historians.
| Created / published | [1911] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Camnitz (Pitt. N.Y.). Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,817 × 4,323 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10563 |
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