Tillie Shafer, New York NL (baseball) – Vintage 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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This historic photograph of Tillie Shafer, New York NL (baseball) brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tillie Shafer, New York NL (baseball)
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This Bain News Service glass negative shows Tillie Shafer, an infielder for the New York Giants, in uniform. The Giants were then managed by John McGraw and played at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan, so the portrait belongs to the city's busy baseball scene of the early 1910s. Bain's agency supplied news photographs to newspapers and magazines, and its glass plates capture how players were presented to a public that followed the game closely. The 1913 date comes from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research, so it is a considered attribution rather than a date written on the plate itself.
| 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: Shafer, Giants. 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 | 5,729 × 4,179 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14110 |
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