Pete Compton, St. Louis AL, at Hilltop Park, NY (baseball) – Vintage Wall Art
![Pete Compton, St. Louis AL, at Hilltop Park, NY (baseball), [1912] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4f/4f69ac1fb1b8-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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This historic photograph of Pete Compton, St. Louis AL, at Hilltop Park, NY (baseball) brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Pete Compton, St. Louis AL, at Hilltop Park, NY (baseball)
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Few early ballparks are as tied to New York's sporting life as Hilltop Park, the uptown field in Washington Heights that served as the home of the Highlanders, later the Yankees, until 1912. This Bain News Service glass negative shows Pete Compton of the St. Louis Browns during a visit to that park. The agency supplied newspapers with pictures of players and games, and its collection now stands as a major record of the era. The 1912 date is a research estimate, so the exact game remains uncertain.
| 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: Compton, St. L. Browns. 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 | 2,948 × 4,548 px · prints to 10 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14499 |
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