Chicago in door base ball team – 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: Chicago in door base ball team, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Chicago in door base ball team
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Believed by baseball historian Paul Dickson to be the earliest photograph of an indoor baseball team, this c1897 picture shows a Chicago squad at a time when the game was a winter cousin of outdoor baseball. Indoor baseball was played with a larger, softer ball in gymnasiums and armories, and Chicago was one of its early centers. The copyright registration in the name of X.O. Howe preserves a record of the sport before it developed into softball.
| Created / published | c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | 17428 U.S. Copyright Office. This is believed to be, according to baseball historian Paul Dickson, the first photo of a softball" (indoor baseball) team. Copyright by X.O. Howe |
| Subjects | Softball players--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,022 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168584 |
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