The Maine base ball club"--All blown up at Havana except no. 1 J.H. Bloomer" – Historic 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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This rare historic photograph captures The Maine base ball club"--All blown up at Havana except no. 1 J.H. Bloomer" in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Maine base ball club"--All blown up at Havana except no. 1 J.H. Bloomer"
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The caption makes a grim joke of a navy tragedy: the team is "all blown up at Havana except no. 1 J.H. Bloomer." The battleship *Maine* exploded and sank in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing more than 250 of her crew, and the disaster helped push the United States toward war with Spain that spring. Mages & Co., a Chicago studio, registered the picture for copyright on May 2, 1898, while the country was still stirred up over the sinking. Such novelty group portraits, which pair sports teams with current events, show how quickly ordinary people turned headline news into popular entertainment.
| Created / published | c1898 May 2. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1900.Group portraits 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 27718 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Geo. C. Mages & Co., Chicago. |
| Subjects | Maine (Battleship)--People--1890-1900. Baseball players--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,703 × 3,716 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128505 |
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