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[Mickey Mantle, New York Yankee baseball player, in uniform, sitting in locker room holding a bat] / Marvin E. Newman. – Vintage Wall Art

[Mickey Mantle, New York Yankee baseball player, in uniform, sitting in locker room holding a bat] / Marvin E. Newman. — historic photograph
[Mickey Mantle, New York Yankee baseball player, in uniform, sitting in locker room holding a bat] / Marvin E. Newman.. 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: [Mickey Mantle, New York Yankee baseball player, in uniform, sitting in locker room holding a bat] / Marvin E. Newman., 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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[Mickey Mantle, New York Yankee baseball player, in uniform, sitting in locker room holding a bat] / Marvin E. Newman.

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Mickey Mantle sits in a clubhouse in full Yankee uniform, bat resting across his knees, in this frame from a 1956 session by Marvin E. Newman. The image survives as a contact sheet frame, the small-format proof a photographer would study before choosing which negatives to print large. Newman worked widely for Look magazine, and the picture reflects that magazine-style approach: a relaxed, unposed moment that puts a star player in an ordinary setting. Mantle was in the middle of a strong run for the Yankees in 1956, and the photograph offers a quiet look at the player away from the field.

Medium1 photographic print (contact sheet frame)
Notes1956 May 15 (date added to Look's library)
SubjectsMantle, Mickey,--1931-1995--Sports. New York Yankees (Baseball team)--People--1950-1960.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,312 × 5,308 px · prints to 14 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213882

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