Shrine ball game – Vintage Photo Print
![Shrine ball game, [1921] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/67/67ae8b9be0d0-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.)
Description
Shrine ball game comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Shrine ball game
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Few details survive about the event itself, but the record ties this scene to a shrine ball game, a kind of community play that often drew crowds to a sacred site and its grounds. The image is a glass negative from the National Photo Company, a commercial studio that documented people and events across the early twentieth century, and its date of about 1921 places it in the years after the First World War. Visitors should note the streaks and blemishes on the glass, which come from the gradual breakdown of the original emulsion coatings. Herbert A. French gave the negative to the collection in 1947.
| Created / published | [1921] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. Temp. note: Batch two. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,463 × 4,385 px · prints to 18 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-234320 |
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