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[Ralph Works, Detroit Baseball Club player, head-and-shoulders portrait, in uniform, facing front] – Vintage Wall Art

[Ralph Works, Detroit Baseball Club player, head-and-shoulders portrait, in uniform, facing front], 1909 Aug. 23. — historic photograph
[Ralph Works, Detroit Baseball Club player, head-and-shoulders portrait, in uniform, facing front], 1909 Aug. 23.. 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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Ralph Works, a member of the Detroit Tigers, sits for a head-and-shoulders portrait in his uniform, facing the camera directly, in this print dated August 23, 1909. Detroit was contending for the American League pennant that summer and went on to win it, though the team lost the World Series to Pittsburgh that fall. The picture is one of many made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with news photographs, and its plain studio-style framing reflects how baseball players were documented for the press in the early 1900s.

Created / published1909 Aug. 23.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsWorks, Ralph Talmadge,--1888-1941--Sports. Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)--People--1900-1910. Baseball players--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,170 × 5,127 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210889

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