[Boy holding baseball bat and boy wearing catcher's mitt] – Historic Reproduction
![[Boy holding baseball bat and boy wearing catcher's mitt], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/33/33a43d964296-L.webp)
(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 [Boy holding baseball bat and boy wearing catcher's mitt] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Boy holding baseball bat and boy wearing catcher's mitt]
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Two boys stand together in this stereograph, one gripping a baseball bat and the other wearing a catcher's mitt, which makes the pairing of batter and catcher easy to read even though the scene is posed. Stereographs like this were made to be viewed through a stereoscope, which fused two slightly different side-by-side images into a single three-dimensional scene. Sold widely in the first decade of the 1900s, they gave home viewers a close look at everyday American life, and baseball, already the national pastime, appears often in them. The record dates the image only to between 1900 and 1910, so its exact setting and the boys' names remain unknown.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | No. 117369. |
| Subjects | Baseball--1900-1910. Boys--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,247 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-189454 |
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