Wash. Base Ball Club, 1924 – Historic Photograph 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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Step back in time with Wash. Base Ball Club, 1924, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Wash. Base Ball Club, 1924
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The Washington Base Ball Club of 1924 is the subject here, a team photographed during the years when baseball was the dominant sport of American towns and cities. The National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio known for its large output of news and portrait pictures in the early twentieth century, made the glass negative, and the record notes that the original title came from the company's own sleeve and has not been independently verified. Glass plates like this one were the standard medium of press and commercial photographers of the era, and they were prized for their sharp detail. The plate's surface shows streaks and blemishes from the slow decay of its coating, a common sign of age that gives the image its worn, original character.
| Created / published | 1924 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,462 × 5,159 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-260732 |
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