George McConnell (baseball) – Antique Wall Art
![George McConnell (baseball), [1913] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2b/2b8e91376c6c-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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George McConnell (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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George McConnell (baseball)
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This portrait shows George McConnell, a professional baseball player whose name is the only personal detail the record preserves. It is a glass negative, and the date of about 1913 comes from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research, so it is an informed estimate rather than a date written at the time. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that sold images to newspapers, made pictures like this one of athletes and public figures in the years before the First World War. Its studio portraits of ballplayers show how the sport was presented to a fast-growing audience of newspaper readers.
| Created / published | [1913] |
|---|---|
| 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: McConnell. 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 | 5,772 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11347 |
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