Ball club – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Ball club comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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This wood engraving, published in Harper's Monthly in 1873, shows a ball club of young men at Hampton Institute in Virginia, offering a glimpse of Black students at play in a widely read national magazine. Hampton had been founded in 1868 to educate formerly enslaved people and their children, pairing academic study with trades and farm work, so a game there reflects leisure within a demanding school routine. Baseball was spreading quickly through American towns and schools in the 1870s, and the engraver has captured the players' poses and the open field around them.
| Created / published | 1873 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1870-1880.Wood engravings 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Illus. from: Harper's Monthly, 1873. |
| Subjects | Hampton Institute--People--1870-1880. African Americans--Sports--Virginia--Hampton--1870-1880. Baseball players--Virginia--Hampton--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,282 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-195605 |
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