Boston Base Ball Club – Vintage Print
(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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Step back in time with Boston Base Ball Club, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Boston Base Ball Club
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The record identifies this as a photographic print of the Boston Base Ball Club, a National League team that was among the strongest clubs of the 1880s. The photograph carries a Goodwin & Co. copyright, and the caption card notes suggest it was later used in cigarette cards and advertising. Goodwin & Company, a New York tobacco firm, inserted photographic cards of ballplayers and other subjects into its cigarette packs during the mid-1880s, so the image reflects how baseball became a popular subject for commercial promotion. The record is based on old caption data that has not been fully verified, so details about the players and the exact date should be checked against other sources.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by Goodwin & Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Advert.; Cigarette cards; Ph. Ind.; B.I. (8); Baseball. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,219 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143056 |
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