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[Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat] / Irwin, La Broad, & Pudlin. – Vintage Wall Art

[Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat] / Irwin, La Broad, & Pudlin., c1920. — historic photograph
[Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat] / Irwin, La Broad, & Pudlin., c1920.. 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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[Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat] / Irwin, La Broad, & Pudlin. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat] / Irwin, La Broad, & Pudlin.

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Babe Ruth stands full-length in his baseball uniform, turned slightly to the left and gripping a bat, with his own signature written across the image: "Yours truly 'Babe' Ruth." That signed inscription, marked "No. 6," points to the photograph's purpose as a promotional piece sold to fans around 1920, when Ruth was in his first seasons with the New York Yankees after leaving Boston. The studio Irwin, La Broad & Pudlin, a Chicago-area firm, produced many such player cards and portraits in this period, and the image was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, a sign of how valuable a star's likeness had become.

Created / publishedc1920.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920.Autographs 1920.Photographic prints 1920.
NotesJ242488 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on image: Yours truly "Babe" Ruth." No. 6."
SubjectsRuth, Babe,--1895-1948. Baseball players--1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,786 × 4,647 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220758

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