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[Ed Summers, Detroit Baseball Club pitcher, full-length portrait, in uniform, facing right] – Antique Photo Print

[Ed Summers, Detroit Baseball Club pitcher, full-length portrait, in uniform, facing right], [1909] — historic photograph
[Ed Summers, Detroit Baseball Club pitcher, full-length portrait, in uniform, facing right], [1909]. Historic photograph from the Baseball 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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Step back in time with [Ed Summers, Detroit Baseball Club pitcher, full-length portrait, in uniform, facing right], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Ed Summers, whose full name was Oren Edgar Summers, stands in his Detroit Tigers uniform in this full-length portrait taken around 1909. The picture is a Bain News Service print from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news photographs that the agency distributed to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Summers pitched for Detroit in the years before the club's great teams of that decade, and the studio-style pose, with the player turned toward the right, reflects how press photographers often presented ballplayers as individual figures. The date rests on later research by the Society for American Baseball Research rather than on a written caption from the period.

Created / published[1909]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1920.Photographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsSummers, Oren Edgar,--1884-1953--Sports. Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)--People--1900-1920. Baseball players--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,178 × 5,136 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210885

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