Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia NL (baseball) – Antique Wall Art
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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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This rare historic photograph captures Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia NL (baseball) 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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Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia NL (baseball)
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Grover Cleveland Alexander is the pitcher shown here in his Philadelphia National League uniform, a detail that ties the portrait to the team he joined in the early 1910s. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of the day, made the glass negative, and its caption cards list the subject as "Alexander, Phils, 1913." The date on this print is an estimate, based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research's Pictorial History Committee in 2006. Alexander became one of the most successful pitchers of his era, and the Bain collection is valued today for documenting the players and ballparks of that period.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| 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: Alexander, Phils, 1913. 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 | 5,666 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13245 |
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