Bachelor [sic] Baseball Club – Antique Print
![Bachelor [sic] Baseball Club, [1867] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/91/91cecb7588d0-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Bachelor [sic] Baseball Club. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bachelor [sic] Baseball Club
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Set apart by its title, the "Bachelor [sic] Baseball Club" is a group of 13 individual portraits of club members, each mounted as a carte de visite. The cards were made by several different studios, including those of Frederick Gutekunst, A. Newman, and C.H. Spieler, so the set shows how widely a single team's players could be photographed by different hands. In the 1860s, baseball was still an amateur pastime organized by local clubs, and cartes de visite were a popular, inexpensive format that people collected in albums. Together the cards offer a record of the early club game and its players.
| Created / published | [1867] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 13 photographic prints on carte de visite mounts : albumen. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1860-1870.Cartes de visite 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Among the photographers represented are: J. Fenton, Frederick Gutekunst, H. Harrison, F.S. Keeler, A. Newman, Reger, Rehn & Sons, and C.H. Spieler. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:105 |
| Subjects | Baseball players--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,625 × 4,590 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219968 |
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