Pete Shields, catcher in spring training with Cleveland AL (baseball) – Vintage Print
(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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Pete Shields, catcher in spring training with Cleveland AL (baseball) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Pete Shields, catcher in spring training with Cleveland AL (baseball)
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Pete Shields, a catcher, is shown at spring training with the Cleveland American League club, and the picture's date, March 31, 1913, places him in camp during the early weeks of the season. The negative is a glass plate from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the photo service that supplied news pictures to American newspapers in the early twentieth century. Bain's caption cards marked the sitter simply as "Shields, Cleve," and the baseball identification was added later by researchers with the Society for American Baseball Research. Spring training in that era was a rough, outdoor affair, with players working out in warm-weather towns before the regular schedule opened.
| Created / published | 1913 Mar. 31. |
|---|---|
| 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: Shields, Cleve, 3/31/13. Title 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 | 5,728 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13881 |
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