Matsuda (Waseda) safe on 2nd-Chicago, May 1911. baseball – Antique Wall Art
(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 Matsuda (Waseda) safe on 2nd-Chicago, May 1911. baseball 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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Matsuda (Waseda) safe on 2nd-Chicago, May 1911. baseball
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A player named in the caption as Matsuda, of Waseda, is safe at second base in this May 1911 game in Chicago. Waseda, a Tokyo university, toured American campuses that year, which made its baseball team a novelty on a Midwestern diamond. The image is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news pictures to newspapers nationwide. Because the title comes from the agency's own unverified notes, the names are best checked against contemporary sources.
| Created / published | May-11. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10435 |
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