Pitcher Roger E. Salmon, Philadelphia AL (baseball) – 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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Pitcher Roger E. Salmon, Philadelphia AL (baseball) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pitcher Roger E. Salmon, Philadelphia AL (baseball)
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Few pitchers from the 1912 Philadelphia Athletics are as little documented as Roger Salmon, and this glass negative is one of the few visual records of him. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that sold pictures to newspapers, made the image, and its caption card identifies him simply as "Salmon, Phila A's." The Athletics, managed by Connie Mack, were one of the strongest clubs in the early American League, and newspaper portraits like this one helped readers put faces to the team's roster. The 1912 date comes from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research, not from the negative itself.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| 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: Salmon, Phila A's. 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,198 × 3,381 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11395 |
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