Galaxy of the National League, Hastings the Photographer – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Galaxy of the National League, Hastings the Photographer, preserved in this historic photograph. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Galaxy of the National League, Hastings the Photographer
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This picture gathers a group of National League players into a single composition, a format that suggests the "galaxy" of the title meant the league's leading stars shown together. The National League had been founded in 1876, and in the decades that followed, photographers sold portraits of ballplayers to fans who were eager to put faces to the names in the box scores. Studio work like this helped turn professional players into public celebrities, and it preserves how the sport presented itself in its formative years. Looking closely, you can see the formal poses, the uniforms and the careful staging typical of late nineteenth-century portrait photography.
| Original scan | 8,456 × 6,685 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 18835u |
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