Ed Sweeney, New York, AL (baseball) – Antique Print
![Ed Sweeney, New York, AL (baseball), [1911] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/25/25d1df289394-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.)
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A window into the past: Ed Sweeney, New York, AL (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. 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 Sweeney, New York, AL (baseball)
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This glass negative shows Ed Sweeney, a player for the New York American League club, which was still called the Americans and played in Manhattan in 1911. Bain News Service, the New York photo agency whose founder, George Grantham Bain, ran it, sold pictures like this to newspapers that were eager for images of local sports figures. The date and title come from a 2006 research effort by the Society for American Baseball Research, which helps place the portrait in a specific season. Glass plates of this size were the standard for news photography of the period, so the image also shows the working methods of early sports photographers.
| Created / published | [1911] |
|---|---|
| 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: Sweeney. N.Y. Americans. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,854 × 4,229 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10371 |
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