[Baseball fans, including women, waiting in line for ball grounds to open] – Historic Reproduction
![[Baseball fans, including women, waiting in line for ball grounds to open], [1920 Oct. 5] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/66/668963b67863-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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Step back in time with [Baseball fans, including women, waiting in line for ball grounds to open], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Women stand among the men in this crowd of fans queued up before the ballpark gates opened on October 5, 1920. That date was the opening game of the World Series between the Brooklyn Robins and the Cleveland Indians, when demand for seats ran high and early arrivals gathered well before the first pitch. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a news photographer whose pictures were sold to newspapers, so it was meant to capture a current event. It is a useful record of how mass sports crowds formed in the 1920s and of the growing presence of women as spectators at the ballpark.
| Created / published | [1920 Oct. 5] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic. print. |
| Genre | Photographic. prints 1920. |
| Notes | George Grantham Bain Collection. |
| Subjects | Sports spectators--United States--1920. Women--Social life--United States--1920. Queues--United States--1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181730 |
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