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[Baseball game at old Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., view of spectators and one player on field] – Historic Photograph Print

[Baseball game at old Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., view of spectators and one player on field], [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph
[Baseball game at old Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., view of spectators and one player on field], [between 1909 and 1932]. Historic photograph from the Baseball collection.

(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 rare historic photograph captures [Baseball game at old Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., view of spectators and one player on field] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Griffith Stadium, the home park of the Washington Senators on Georgia Avenue in Northwest Washington, is the setting for this view of a ball game with spectators in the stands and a single player on the field. The National Photo Company, a commercial studio that documented Washington life in the early twentieth century, produced the image sometime between 1909 and 1932, a span that covers the ballpark's early years and the era when the Senators featured Walter Johnson on the mound. Crowds at the park were a fixture of the capital's social life, and the picture captures a moment that reflects how baseball had become a shared civic pastime by the 1920s.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1932]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1940.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBaseball--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,133 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165740

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