Water baseball – Historic Print
(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
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Water baseball. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Water baseball
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What sets this print apart is its setting: the game is played in water rather than on a dry diamond, and the caption card places it on a bathing beach. Water baseball was a summer novelty in the early 1910s, when crowds at seaside and lakeside resorts watched or joined games that adapted the field game to shallow water, where wading and swimming changed how players ran, threw, and fielded. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news photographs, and is dated to late July 1914. The details come from old, unverified caption cards, so the exact location and date should be read with that in mind.
| Created / published | c1914 July 27. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Bathing Beaches; Beach Scenes; Baseball; Sports--Water baseball; Shelf (2). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,133 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138870 |
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