A comprehensive view of base ball – Vintage Photo 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 A comprehensive view of base ball, a historic print 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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A comprehensive view of base ball
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The title promises a wide-angle survey of the game, and the date given for this print is October 25, 1859, though that date and the name associated with it, Wm. T. Crane, come from a shelflist card and have not been verified. Multi-scene views like this were popular as baseball was taking shape in the New York area. In the late 1850s the game was still organizing itself around the Knickerbocker rules and local club play, several years before the Civil War spread it among soldiers in camps. Prints of this kind offer a glimpse of how much public attention the sport was already drawing before it became a national pastime.
| Created / published | c1859 Oct. 25. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Crane, Wm. T. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,180 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109165 |
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