Chicago in door base ball team – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Chicago in door base ball team. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Chicago in door base ball team
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Chicago's indoor baseball team, photographed around 1897, is believed by baseball historian Paul Dickson to be the first photograph ever taken of an indoor baseball team. Indoor baseball was a winter game played in gymnasiums and armories with a larger, softer ball than outdoor baseball, which let teams keep playing when the weather turned cold. The catalog record labels the players "softball," but the game is indoor baseball, a precursor of the later softball. The print was registered for copyright by the photographer X.O. Howe.
| Created / published | c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | 17428 U.S. Copyright Office. This is believed to be, according to baseball historian Paul Dickson, the first photo of a softball" (indoor baseball) team. Copyright by X.O. Howe |
| Subjects | Softball players--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,932 × 4,159 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif18407_Chicagoindoorbaseballteam |
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