Kid Gleason, Chicago AL, at Hilltop Park, NY (baseball) – Historic Print
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(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 Kid Gleason, Chicago AL, at Hilltop Park, NY (baseball). The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Kid Gleason, Chicago AL, at Hilltop Park, NY (baseball)
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This Bain News Service glass negative shows William "Kid" Gleason of the Chicago White Sox, photographed at Hilltop Park in New York, the Highlanders' home ballpark in Upper Manhattan, where visiting clubs also played. Gleason was a small, scrappy infielder before he became one of the game's best-known field leaders, and he later managed the 1919 White Sox to the World Series. The picture's date of 1912 is an estimate drawn from research by the Society for American Baseball Research, so it is a useful marker of the period rather than a confirmed day. Bain's pictures of ballplayers are valued for capturing the everyday look of the sport in the early 1910s.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Gleason, Chisox. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,697 × 4,191 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13226 |
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