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[Rear view of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle with bat swung over his shoulder] / Marvin E. Newman. – Vintage Wall Art

[Rear view of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle with bat swung over his shoulder] / Marvin E. Newman. — historic photograph
[Rear view of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle with bat swung over his shoulder] / Marvin E. Newman.. 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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A window into the past: [Rear view of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle with bat swung over his shoulder] / Marvin E. Newman., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Rear view of New York Yankee baseball player Mickey Mantle with bat swung over his shoulder] / Marvin E. Newman.

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Few pictures of Mickey Mantle show him from behind, and this one, a contact-sheet frame by Marvin E. Newman, catches the Yankee slugger in a rear view with his bat resting over his shoulder, ready for the next pitch. Newman worked for Look magazine, and the Library of Congress notes that the frame was added to the magazine's library on May 15, 1956, at the height of Mantle's reputation as the league's most feared hitter. The contact sheet itself is worth noticing: it preserves the unedited sequence a photographer shot and chose from, offering a glimpse of the editing process behind the magazine pages of the 1950s.

Medium1 photographic print (contact sheet frame)
Notes1956 May 15. (date added to Look's library)
SubjectsMantle, Mickey,--1931-1995--Sports. New York Yankees (Baseball team)--People--1950-1960.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,379 × 5,394 px · prints to 15 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213897

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