Tris Speaker, Boston AL (baseball) – Historic Reproduction
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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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A window into the past: Tris Speaker, Boston AL (baseball), preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Tris Speaker, Boston AL (baseball)
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Tris Speaker, the Boston American League center fielder known for his quick reads on fly balls, is the subject of this 1912 glass negative. It comes from the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency whose negatives document sports and news figures in the early twentieth century. Researchers at the Society for American Baseball Research dated the picture to 1912, the year Boston won the World Series with Speaker as a key part of its outfield.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Speaker. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,285 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11551 |
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