Karl S. (Babe) Adams, Savannah? – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Karl S. (Babe) Adams, Savannah? comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Karl S. (Babe) Adams, Savannah?
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The record names a ballplayer, Karl S. "Babe" Adams, but it marks the Savannah location with a question mark, so the place is unconfirmed. Adams was a right-handed pitcher best known for his years with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1900s and 1910s, including the 1909 World Series. The image is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the work of Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers with news and sports photographs in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, so the occasion is unknown, though the glass format places it in that era of press photography.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,685 × 4,103 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19941 |
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