New York Female Giants (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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of New York Female Giants (baseball). It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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New York Female Giants (baseball)
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The pitcher pictured here belongs to the New York Female Giants, a women's team that barnstormed through the 1910s, playing exhibition games that drew crowds curious about women competing at a sport then seen as men's territory. The Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency in New York, made pictures like this for newspapers and magazines, so the image reflects how the press packaged women's athletics for a public that was both amused and intrigued. The date of about 1913 comes from later research by baseball historians, not from the original caption.
| 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: Pitcher - Female Giants. 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 | 5,829 × 4,291 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14730 |
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