Miss Myrtle Rowe holding a baseball mitt – Vintage 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: Miss Myrtle Rowe holding a baseball mitt, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Miss Myrtle Rowe holding a baseball mitt
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Here Miss Myrtle Rowe poses with a baseball mitt, a prop that in 1910 signaled a sporting role still unusual for women. The picture is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, the New York photo agency that supplied news and feature pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Women's baseball at the time was mostly limited to exhibition games and novelty teams, so portraits like this were often staged to entertain readers as much as to document anything. The title comes from the agency's own caption data, which has not been independently verified, so the pose itself is the best guide to what the photographer intended.
| Created / published | 3/14/10. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,494 × 4,971 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5964 |
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