Aldridge, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1925 – Historic Print
(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: Aldridge, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1925, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Aldridge, Pittsburgh Pirates, 1925
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The caption ties this glass negative to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1925 and names someone called Aldridge, though the Library of Congress flags that name as unverified Bain News Service data. The Pirates won the World Series that autumn over the Washington Senators, and they played at Forbes Field, which had opened in 1909. Bain News Service sold photographs to newspapers, so this picture reflects how sports images reached readers in the 1920s.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,199 × 4,780 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39770 |
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