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Baseball fans - at Polo Grounds, N.Y. April 12, 1911 – Antique Wall Art

Baseball fans - at Polo Grounds, N.Y. April 12, 1911, 1911 April 12. — historic photograph
Baseball fans - at Polo Grounds, N.Y. April 12, 1911, 1911 April 12.. 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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This historic photograph of Baseball fans - at Polo Grounds, N.Y. April 12, 1911 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Baseball fans - at Polo Grounds, N.Y. April 12, 1911

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This photograph was taken at the Polo Grounds in New York on April 12, 1911, when the stadium was home to the New York Giants and was filling up with fans for the start of the season. Two days later, a fire destroyed the wooden grandstand, and the ballpark was rebuilt in concrete and steel, so the crowd captured here belongs to the last days of the original structure. The picture gives a sense of the early-twentieth-century ballgame as a mass public event, with fans gathered in numbers that reflected the sport's growing popularity in American cities.

Created / published1911 April 12.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
SubjectsBaseball--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,110 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134353

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