James C. "Red" Smith, Brooklyn NL (baseball) – Historic Print
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(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of James C. "Red" Smith, Brooklyn NL (baseball). It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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James C. "Red" Smith, Brooklyn NL (baseball)
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This portrait shows James C. "Red" Smith in a Brooklyn National League uniform, a detail that places him with the club then known as the Superbas. The image is a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a Manhattan-based agency that sold news and feature photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The date of about 1913 and the identification of the sitter come from research by the Society for American Baseball Research's Pictorial History Committee in 2006, since the original caption gave only the surname and team. Such player portraits were common in the period, when baseball was a central subject for newspaper readers and the glass plate was the standard medium for press work.
| Created / published | [1913] |
|---|---|
| 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: Smith, Bklyn. 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 | 5,735 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14340 |
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