Hoover, Opening game, 1929, 4/17/29 – Historic 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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This historic photograph of Hoover, Opening game, 1929, 4/17/29 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hoover, Opening game, 1929, 4/17/29
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Few presidents were as closely tied to the opening of the baseball season as Herbert Hoover, and this glass negative, dated April 17, 1929, captures one such occasion. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio that documented the capital for decades, made the image on a 4 by 5 inch plate. Hoover had taken office only weeks earlier, and presidents had been throwing out the first ball at Washington games since William Howard Taft did so in 1910. The record notes streaks and blemishes from deterioration of the original coating, which are worth keeping in mind when judging the image's fine detail.
| Created / published | 1929 April 17. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by 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 four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,241 × 4,210 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-246676 |
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