Frank Metz, first baseman, Boston NL (baseball) – Vintage Print
![Frank Metz, first baseman, Boston NL (baseball), [1913, Spring] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/55/55ec5c5820e7-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 rare historic photograph captures Frank Metz, first baseman, Boston NL (baseball) in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Frank Metz, first baseman, Boston NL (baseball)
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Frank Metz is identified here as a first baseman for the Boston National League club, and the picture is one of the early baseball portraits in the Bain collection. The photographer's negative and caption cards spell the surname "Mez," and the Library of Congress record gives the date as spring 1913, based on later research by the Society for American Baseball Research. Bain News Service sold news photographs of athletes and public figures to newspapers, so portraits like this one were made to be reproduced quickly. The glass negative is also a useful reminder of how press photography worked before the rise of the small camera.
| Created / published | [1913, Spring] |
|---|---|
| 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: Mez. 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 | 5,766 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13195 |
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