Les Nunamaker, Boston AL (baseball) – Historic Reproduction
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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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This historic photograph of Les Nunamaker, Boston AL (baseball) brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Les Nunamaker, Boston AL (baseball)
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Catcher Les Nunamaker is the subject here, pictured with the Boston American League club, which was then known as the Boston Americans and later became the Red Sox. Nunamaker spent much of the 1910s as a backup catcher, a role that meant waiting for chances behind the regular catchers. The picture comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, and its glass negatives capture the look of early 1910s ballplayers. The 1912 date is an estimate from later research rather than a firm caption.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| 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: Nunamaker, Bosox. 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,835 × 4,329 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11547 |
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