New York Yankee President Frank Farrell's box seats at the Polo Grounds, New York (baseball) – Historic Print
![New York Yankee President Frank Farrell's box seats at the Polo Grounds, New York (baseball), [between 1903 an 1911] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/66/660a68507460-L.webp)
(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: New York Yankee President Frank Farrell's box seats at the Polo Grounds, New York (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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New York Yankee President Frank Farrell's box seats at the Polo Grounds, New York (baseball)
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Among the many Bain News Service views of baseball at the Polo Grounds, this one is set apart by its subject: not the field or the crowd, but the private box seats belonging to Frank Farrell, the gambling operator and businessman who held a stake in the New York Highlanders, later known as the Yankees. The Polo Grounds, on the upper end of Manhattan, was home to the Highlanders in these years, and owners' boxes like this one show how team executives watched games from close quarters. The negative dates to roughly 1903 to 1911, when Farrell was active in the club's affairs, and it was made by the Bain News Service, a photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of city life.
| Created / published | [between 1903 an 1911] |
|---|---|
| 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: Frank Farrell's box at Polo Grounds. Title and date 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 | 2,759 × 4,563 px · prints to 9 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14497 |
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