Brooklyn base ball team, 1889 – Historic Print
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Brooklyn base ball team, 1889 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Brooklyn base ball team, 1889
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Brooklyn's 1889 team is the one pictured here, and the studio imprint on the print places its making on Fulton Street, one of the busiest commercial thoroughfares in the borough. The club had a strong season that year, winning the American Association pennant, and team portraits like this one were often sold to fans eager to put a favorite club on the wall. Baseball was then in its early professional era, when players were still stepping into formal studio poses, and the staged, upright arrangement of a group like this reflects the conventions of late nineteenth-century portrait photography.
| Created / published | c1889. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1880-1890.Group portraits 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Title from item. Copyright 1889, by Gardner & Co. 276 & 278 Fulton St. |
| Subjects | Baseball players--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,186 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147712 |
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