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[Walter Allen Blair, baseball catcher, full-length portrait, facing right, in uniform of New York (AL), throwing ball] – Vintage Wall Art

[Walter Allen Blair, baseball catcher, full-length portrait, facing right, in uniform of New York (AL), throwing ball], [1909] — historic photograph
[Walter Allen Blair, baseball catcher, full-length portrait, facing right, in uniform of New York (AL), throwing ball], [1909]. 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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Step back in time with [Walter Allen Blair, baseball catcher, full-length portrait, facing right, in uniform of New York (AL), throwing ball], a historic photograph rich in period 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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Walter Allen Blair is shown in full-length uniform, facing right and mid-throw, a pose that captures the quick arm action catchers needed to cut down base runners. The New York American League club he played for was then known as the Highlanders, a name it used until the team became the Yankees in 1913. The print comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs taken in New York in the early twentieth century. Its 1909 date was assigned by the Society for American Baseball Research's Pictorial History Committee in 2006, which shows how much photo archives rely on later research to date and identify their images.

Created / published[1909]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1920.Photographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection. Date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
SubjectsBlair, Walter,--1883-1948. Baseball players--New York (State)--New York--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,127 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169815

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