Johnny Bates, Cincinnati NL (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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A window into the past: Johnny Bates, Cincinnati NL (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Johnny Bates, Cincinnati NL (baseball)
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Johnny Bates is named here as a Cincinnati National League player, and the Bain News Service caption card abbreviates the team as "Cinci." That shorthand was typical of the agency's captions, which were written quickly for newspapers that needed a name and a team on deadline. The date of about 1913 comes from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research's Pictorial History Committee rather than from the negative itself. The picture is a small glass plate from the George Grantham Bain Collection, which preserves the work of a New York news photo service that sent images of players, politicians and events to newspapers across the country in the early 1900s.
| 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: Bates, Cinci. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,723 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13866 |
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