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Baseball team, Eymard Seminary, Suffern, N.Y. – Antique Wall Art

Baseball team, Eymard Seminary, Suffern, N.Y., [between 1890 and 1910] — historic photograph
Baseball team, Eymard Seminary, Suffern, N.Y., [between 1890 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Baseball team, Eymard Seminary, Suffern, N.Y.

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The team in this photograph is from the Eymard Seminary in Suffern, New York, where young men were trained for the priesthood, so the image pairs clergy with the baseball uniform, an unusual combination for a portrait of this period. The seminary was run by a Catholic religious community named for Peter Julian Eymard, and by the 1890s and 1900s many Catholic schools and seminaries had embraced organized sports as a way to build discipline and fellowship among students. Baseball was then the most popular team sport in the United States, and team portraits like this one, posed with bats, gloves, and a studio backdrop, were a common way for institutions to record their athletes. The photograph comes from the Wittemann Collection of sports images at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1910]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1910.Group portraits 1890-1910.Photographic prints 1890-1910.
NotesTitle from item. Forms part of: Wittemann Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBaseball players--New York (State)--Suffern--1890-1910. Clergy--New York (State)--Suffern--1890-1910. Theological seminaries--New York (State)--Suffern--1890-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147098

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