Brooklyn Federal League base ball club – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Brooklyn Federal League base ball club comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Brooklyn Federal League base ball club
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This panoramic group portrait is unusual for its width: at nearly four feet long, it fits the whole Brooklyn Federal League club into one frame, with the players and staff named on the image itself. The Federal League was an upstart third major league that played in 1914 and 1915 in direct competition with the National and American Leagues, and its Brooklyn club, known that season as the Tip-Tops, was one of its more prominent franchises. The print was registered for copyright in April 1914, and the photographer's Pittsburgh address on the record suggests a commercial studio working on team commissions. Sitters, uniforms, and the posed arrangement all offer a close look at how a short-lived rival league presented itself to the public.
| Created / published | c1914. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 9 x 47.5 in. |
| Genre | Group portraits.Portrait photographs.Panoramic photographs.Gelatin silver prints. |
| Notes | J191952 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Federal League Baseball Club of Brooklyn, Inc.; April 24, 1914; DLC/PP-1914:44753. Names of sitters labeled on image. Photographer's address: Pgh., Pa. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,276 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-206978 |
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