Otto Hess, Boston Nat. – Historic 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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A window into the past: Otto Hess, Boston Nat., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Otto Hess, Boston Nat.
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Otto Hess, a pitcher, is pictured here in a Boston Nationals uniform, the National League club that was also called the Braves at the time. Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold photographs to newspapers, made this glass negative. The date of about 1913 comes from a 2006 study by the Society for American Baseball Research, not from the original caption, so it is a research-based estimate. Small negatives like this were everyday tools of newspaper photography, when a player's portrait could appear alongside the day's game story.
| Created / published | [1913] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. 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 | 4,109 × 5,766 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13703 |
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