Ed Phelps, Brooklyn NL (baseball) – Vintage Wall Art
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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 Ed Phelps, Brooklyn NL (baseball). The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Ed Phelps, Brooklyn NL (baseball)
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Catcher Ed Phelps of the Brooklyn National League club is the subject here, one of many ballplayer portraits the Bain News Service produced in the early 1910s. The Brooklyn team, then nicknamed the Superbas, drew large crowds in New York's baseball-mad years before the Federal League and World War I changed the game. Bain's photographers worked with glass negatives like this 5 by 7 inch plate, which preserve fine detail in faces and uniforms. The 1913 date comes from later research by baseball historians rather than from the negative itself.
| Created / published | [1913] |
|---|---|
| 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: Phelps, Bklyn. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,728 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13977 |
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