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[Charles Albert (Chief) Bender, of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing forward] – Vintage Wall Art

[Charles Albert (Chief) Bender, of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing forward], [1909] — historic photograph
[Charles Albert (Chief) Bender, of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing forward], [1909]. Historic photograph from the Philadelphia 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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Charles Albert "Chief" Bender, the Philadelphia Athletics pitcher, sits facing the camera in this three-quarter length portrait, a formal seated pose for one of the era's most respected arms. Bender, of Ojibwe descent, had attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School before joining Connie Mack's Athletics in 1903, and he went on to win several World Series games for the club in the 1910s. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a news picture archive, and its 1909 date was assigned by baseball researchers at the Society for American Baseball Research.

Created / published[1909]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1920.Photographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
SubjectsBender, Chief,--1884-1954. Baseball players--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,233 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116490

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