Babe Adams, Pittsburgh, NL (baseball) – Antique Print
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(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: Babe Adams, Pittsburgh, NL (baseball), 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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Babe Adams, Pittsburgh, NL (baseball)
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Charles "Babe" Adams, a right-handed pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, sat for this portrait around 1910, during the years he was building a reputation as one of the league's most reliable starters. He was known for his pinpoint control, and he won three games for Pittsburgh in the 1909 World Series, which the club took from Detroit. The Bain News Service, a New York agency, sold news photographs of athletes and public figures to newspapers, so this glass negative shows how ballplayers were presented to a national readership in the early 1900s.
| Created / published | [1910] |
|---|---|
| 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: Babe Adams - Pitt. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,822 × 4,272 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9599 |
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