A Comprehensive View of Base Ball, lithograph caricature – Historic Photo Reproduction
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of A Comprehensive View of Base Ball, lithograph caricature. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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A Comprehensive View of Base Ball, lithograph caricature
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Rather than a ballpark scene, this lithograph turns the game into a crowd of exaggerated figures, with distorted features and busy action meant to amuse as much as to inform. Caricatures like it circulated in the years before and after the Civil War, when baseball was spreading from city clubs into a national pastime and its rules, players and fans were still being argued over in print. Prints of this kind often poked fun at the sport's rough edges and its ardent followers, which makes them useful evidence of how Americans first saw the game.
| Original scan | 7,500 × 6,130 px · prints to 25 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 2 |
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