Jay Kirke, Boston NL (baseball) – Antique Wall Art
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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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A window into the past: Jay Kirke, Boston NL (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Jay Kirke, Boston NL (baseball)
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The caption on this glass negative spells the player's name Kirk, while the title, based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, uses Kirke. The negative is part of the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, sold news and sports photographs to newspapers in the early 1910s. Boston's National League club was then known as the Braves, and this small plate shows how players of that era were photographed for the press.
| 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: Kirk. 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 | 5,760 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13202 |
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