Fred Lake, Boston, NL (baseball) – Historic Reproduction
![Fred Lake, Boston, NL (baseball), [1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4f/4f0d75d4a4cc-L.webp)
(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 Fred Lake, Boston, NL (baseball), a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fred Lake, Boston, NL (baseball)
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Fred Lake is the player singled out here, and this glass negative marks him as a member of the National League club in Boston, which was then informally called the Doves. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold pictures to newspapers, produced the negative around 1910. The date and title come from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research, so they are estimates rather than details recorded at the time. Bain's glass plates are valued today for documenting early twentieth-century sports and newspaper photography.
| Created / published | [1910] |
|---|---|
| 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: Lake of Boston baseball team. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,860 × 4,272 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9341 |
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