George Gibson, catcher, Pittsburgh NL (baseball) – Vintage Print
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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 George Gibson, catcher, Pittsburgh NL (baseball). It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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George Gibson, catcher, Pittsburgh NL (baseball)
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George Gibson, the catcher for Pittsburgh's National League club, appears here in uniform on the field, a reminder that the Pirates' lineup of the era depended on backstops who handled both hard pitches and the running game. The picture is one of the glass negatives made by the Bain News Service, the New York photo agency whose staff supplied newspapers with sports and news images in the early 1900s. Dating to about 1908, it shows the sport's everyday working ballplayer rather than a posed promotional portrait, and it records how baseball was being photographed for mass readers at the time.
| Created / published | [ca. 1908] |
|---|---|
| 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: Gibson, catcher for Pittsburgh team, on field. 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,247 × 5,816 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4516 |
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