Ed Phelps, Brooklyn NL (baseball) – Antique Print
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(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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Ed Phelps, Brooklyn NL (baseball) comes to life in this historic photograph, 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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Ed Phelps, Brooklyn NL (baseball)
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Catcher Ed Phelps stands as the subject of this 1912 portrait of a Brooklyn National League player, one of the team's men in an era when the club was popularly called the Superbas. The image is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its date of 1912 was assigned later by researchers at the Society for American Baseball Research, so it reflects their estimate rather than a date written on the original. Bain's negatives document the look of the sport and its players during that period.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Phelps, Bklyn. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12760 |
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