St. Louis Browns Baseball Team, Missouri, 1909 – Historic Photograph 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.)
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A window into the past: St. Louis Browns Baseball Team, Missouri, 1909, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: [Browns of 1909]
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St. Louis Browns Baseball Team, Missouri, 1909
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St. Louis in 1909 was one of the largest cities in the country, with a population approaching 700,000, and its manufacturers, shoe and tobacco companies, and rail yards drew workers from across the Midwest. The St. Louis Browns, a charter-era American League club that had moved to the city in 1902, played at Sportsman's Park on the city's north side, a ballpark it shared with the National League Cardinals. Baseball was one of the few entertainments that crossed the city's neighborhoods, and a team portrait like this one would have been bought and kept by fans who followed the club through the streetcar-era crowds that filled the grandstands on weekends. The city was still a few years away from the crowds and civic pride of its later pennant seasons, but in 1909 the Browns were a fixture of its daily life.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bell & palfrey |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Missouri |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,382 × 1,007 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Browns of 1909] |
| Reference | MO St. Louis Browns Baseball Team 1909 |
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