Alvin Gipe (left) & Topsy Harvel (right), 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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This rare historic photograph captures Alvin Gipe (left) & Topsy Harvel (right), Philadelphia AL (baseball) in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Alvin Gipe (left) & Topsy Harvel (right), Philadelphia AL (baseball)
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Two Philadelphia Athletics players, Alvin Gipe on the left and Topsy Harvel on the right, stand side by side in this portrait, which the record dates to about 1911. That was a strong period for the American League club, which was under manager Connie Mack and won the World Series that fall. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that sold images to newspapers, so the sitter identifications come from the agency's caption cards. The Society for American Baseball Research's Pictorial History Committee later checked the title and date in 2006.
| 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: Gipe, 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 | 4,103 × 3,323 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11501 |
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