Lucile Boyd catching; Mary Cook at bat – Antique Wall Art
![Lucile Boyd catching; Mary Cook at bat, [1919] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/19/1967c6bc6a50-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Step back in time with Lucile Boyd catching; Mary Cook at bat, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Lucile Boyd catching; Mary Cook at bat
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A young woman crouches behind the plate as her teammate prepares to swing, with the players identified in the negative's title as Lucile Boyd, catching, and Mary Cook, at bat. The National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio that produced news and feature pictures in the years after World War I, made the image around 1919, a period when women's baseball was often staged as a novelty for local crowds. The names come from the company's notes on the negative and have not been independently verified, so they should be read with that in mind. The glass plate also shows streaks and blemishes from deterioration of its original coating, which is common in negatives of this age.
| Created / published | [1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,242 × 4,236 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-229751 |
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