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[Charles Schmidt, Detroit Baseball Club catcher] – Antique Print

[Charles Schmidt, Detroit Baseball Club catcher], [1909] — historic photograph
[Charles Schmidt, Detroit Baseball Club catcher], [1909]. Historic photograph from the Baseball collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Charles Schmidt, Detroit Baseball Club catcher]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Charles Schmidt, Detroit Baseball Club catcher]

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Catcher Charles Schmidt appears here as a member of the Detroit Tigers, in two prints mounted together on one board. The pictures date to 1909, the season Detroit reached the World Series behind Ty Cobb and other stars of the American League. Photographs like these often came from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news pictures to newspapers and magazines in the early 1900s. Its negatives, now in the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, show how ballplayers were presented to the public during the dead-ball era.

Created / published[1909]
Medium2 photographic prints on one mount.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1920.Photographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesTitle from item. Title devised by Library staff. Date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsSchmidt, Charles,--1880-1932--Sports. Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)--People--1900-1920. Baseball players--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,104 × 4,165 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210891

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