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Ben April, catcher & Chas. Barker, Tech., '23 – Historic Photo Reproduction

Ben April, catcher & Chas. Barker, Tech., '23, [19]23. — historic photograph
Ben April, catcher & Chas. Barker, Tech., '23, [19]23.. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Ben April, catcher & Chas. Barker, Tech., '23. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Ben April, catcher & Chas. Barker, Tech., '23

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This glass negative pairs a catcher, Ben April, with a player identified as Chas. Barker, listed as "Tech.," in 1923. The National Photo Company, a commercial studio that operated in Washington, D.C., in the early twentieth century, made many portraits of athletes and students, and its images often captured players in uniform for newspapers and team programs. The record's date and names come from information written on the negative sleeve and have not been independently verified. Because the plate is glass, faint streaks and blemishes from the aging of its original coating are visible in places, which is typical of collections of this age.

Created / published[19]23.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle and date from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch two.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan4,426 × 5,395 px · prints to 15 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-237583

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