New York Giants at the Polo Grounds New York prior to Game One of the 1912 World Series, October 8, 1912 (baseball) – Historic Print
(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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A window into the past: New York Giants at the Polo Grounds New York prior to Game One of the 1912 World Series, October 8, 1912 (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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New York Giants at the Polo Grounds New York prior to Game One of the 1912 World Series, October 8, 1912 (baseball)
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This glass negative shows the New York Giants posing at the Polo Grounds just before Game One of the 1912 World Series, on October 8, 1912. Numbered markings on the photograph help identify the players, including manager John McGraw, pitchers Christy Mathewson and Rube Marquard, and catcher Chief Meyers standing behind Mathewson. The picture came from the Bain News Service, a photo agency run by George Grantham Bain that supplied newspapers with daily news images. Its clear, close group portrait offers a useful record of the team's lineup and uniforms during a series that drew wide attention in New York.
| Created / published | 1912 Oct. 8. |
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| 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: Giants, 10/8/12. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. According to numbers on photo: 4) Red Murray, 5) Ferdie Schupp, 7) Rube Marquard, 9) Buck Herzog, 10) Larry Doyle, 11) George Burns, 12) John McGraw, 13) Christy Mathewson, (behind Mathewson) Chief Meyers, 14) Jeff Tesreau, 18) Art Fletcher, (trainer in background) Ed Mackall, 19) Wilbert Robinson (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 | 5,748 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12992 |
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