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George "Hickory" Jackson, Boston NL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball) – Antique Print

George "Hickory" Jackson, Boston NL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball), [1913] — historic photograph
George "Hickory" Jackson, Boston NL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball), [1913]. Historic photograph from the Boston 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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This rare historic photograph captures George "Hickory" Jackson, Boston NL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball) in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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George "Hickory" Jackson, Boston NL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball)

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Taken at the Polo Grounds in New York, this glass negative shows George "Hickory" Jackson of the Boston National League club, a Boston player photographed on the road in the Giants' home park. The Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied news and sports pictures to newspapers, made the negative, and its collection is among the largest surviving records of early twentieth-century American life. The date of 1913 and the identification of the player were established by the Society for American Baseball Research's Pictorial History Committee in 2006. Pictures like this one preserve how players and ballparks looked before most fans owned cameras.

Created / published[1913]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesData provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Jackson. 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,722 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-13193

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