Thomas "Buck" O'Brien, Boston AL (baseball) – Vintage Wall Art
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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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This historic photograph of Thomas "Buck" O'Brien, Boston AL (baseball) brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Thomas "Buck" O'Brien, Boston AL (baseball)
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Thomas "Buck" O'Brien, a right-handed pitcher, appears here in uniform as a member of the Boston American League club, which the record dates to about 1912. Buck O'Brien pitched for Boston during the years when the team, then known as the Americans, was building the roster that would win the World Series that fall. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the large body of news photographs that the Bain News Service distributed to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, and the glass plate format shows how such pictures were made for quick reproduction. Its caption identifies him only as "Obrien, Boston," so the fuller name comes from later baseball research.
| 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: Obrien, Boston. 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 | 5,704 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13099 |
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