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First colored world series, opening game Oct. 11, 1924, Kansas City, Mo. / photo by J.E. Mille[r?], K.C. – Antique Photo Print

First colored world series, opening game Oct. 11, 1924, Kansas City, Mo. / photo by J.E. Mille[r?], K.C., 1924 — historic photograph
First colored world series, opening game Oct. 11, 1924, Kansas City, Mo. / photo by J.E. Mille[r?], K.C., 1924. Historic photograph from the Baseball collection.

(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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First colored world series, opening game Oct. 11, 1924, Kansas City, Mo. / photo by J.E. Mille[r?], K.C. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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First colored world series, opening game Oct. 11, 1924, Kansas City, Mo. / photo by J.E. Mille[r?], K.C.

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This panoramic group portrait shows the players and staff gathered for the opening game of the first Colored World Series, held in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 11, 1924. The series pitted the champions of Black professional baseball against one another, at a time when Black players were barred from the major leagues and had built their own circuits of teams, parks, and fans. The photograph was taken by a Kansas City studio, with the photographer's name partly legible on the original caption. Its wide format and posed arrangement show how teams of the era marked important occasions, and the image now stands as a record of a championship that was largely absent from mainstream sports coverage.

Created / published1924
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Group portraits 1920-1930.Panoramic photographs Reproductions 1920-1930.Halftone photomechanical prints 1920-1930.
NotesTitle from item. Names of sitters printed on item. Forms part of: Gladstone collection (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1995:113.321
SubjectsWorld Series (Baseball)--1920-1930. African Americans--Sports--United States--1920-1930. Baseball players--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan9,192 × 2,071 px · prints to 31 × 7 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif18576_Firstcoloredworldseriesopening

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