Byron "Duke" Houck, Philadelphia AL (baseball) – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Byron "Duke" Houck, Philadelphia AL (baseball), a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Byron "Duke" Houck, Philadelphia AL (baseball)
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Byron "Duke" Houck, a pitcher for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, is the subject here, shown in a portrait-style view that a newspaper photo service could quickly distribute. The record dates the negative to about 1912, based on later research by the Society for American Baseball Research, a period when the A's were building the strong teams that won several American League pennants in the early 1910s. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold pictures to newspapers and magazines, made many such glass negatives of ballplayers, so the image reflects how fans of the day met players through print. Its later home in the Library of Congress has kept a large body of these early sports images available to researchers.
| 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: Byron Houck, A's. 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 | 5,748 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13282 |
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