Bigbee, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1925 – Historic Reproduction
(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: Bigbee, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1925, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bigbee, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1925
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Carson Bigbee, a Pittsburgh outfielder, is the player named in this 1925 glass negative, the same season the Pirates went on to win the World Series over the Washington Senators. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, produced many sports portraits like this for newspaper use, and its handwritten caption cards are the source of the title here. The record does not confirm the date or the identification, so treat both as the working attribution. Glass negatives of this size were a common format for quick portraits in the 1920s.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,231 × 4,787 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39758 |
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