Baltimore and All-America base ball teams, California tour 1897 / Marceau, foto, San Francisco. – Vintage Wall Art
(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 rare historic photograph captures Baltimore and All-America base ball teams, California tour 1897 / Marceau, foto, San Francisco. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Baltimore and All-America base ball teams, California tour 1897 / Marceau, foto, San Francisco.
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Few other pictures on this board show two teams together on a single composed sheet. This one, titled for the Baltimore and All-America base ball teams on their 1897 California tour, is a photomontage: the photographer, Marceau of San Francisco, assembled the players and managers into one arrangement rather than capturing them in a single moment. Postseason barnstorming tours like this one took professional clubs across the country to play exhibition games and draw paying crowds. Composite group portraits of this kind were a popular way to present a team to fans and to record a tour's personnel in an era before routine action photography.
| Created / published | c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1900.Group portraits 1890-1900.Photomontages 1890-1900. |
| Subjects | Baseball players--1890-1900. Baseball managers--1890-1900. Baseball--United States--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,103 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168586 |
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