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[Zach Wheat, Brooklyn NL (baseball)] – Vintage Wall Art

[Zach Wheat, Brooklyn NL (baseball)], c1914 April 6. — historic photograph
[Zach Wheat, Brooklyn NL (baseball)], c1914 April 6.. Historic photograph from the Baseball collection.

(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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A window into the past: [Zach Wheat, Brooklyn NL (baseball)], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Zach Wheat, Brooklyn NL (baseball)]

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Zack Wheat, the Brooklyn outfielder pictured here, spent nearly his whole career with one club, playing for Brooklyn from 1909 into the 1926 season. He was a left-handed hitter known for consistent batting, and he was later elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. This portrait comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news photographer whose work documented the city's sports, politics and daily life in the 1910s. Its April 1914 date places it near the start of the baseball season, when teams and newspapers routinely photographed their players.

Created / publishedc1914 April 6.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1910-1920.Portrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesTitle based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Title from caption card and item: Zach Wheat LOT subdivision subject: Baseball - Players, alphabetically arranged. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBaseball players--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,341 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116480

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