Our baseball heroes - captains of the twelve clubs in the National League – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Our baseball heroes - captains of the twelve clubs in the National League, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Our baseball heroes - captains of the twelve clubs in the National League
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Rather than a single portrait, this chromolithograph gathers the captains of all twelve National League clubs onto one color sheet. Richard K. Fox, publisher of the *New York Police Gazette*, copyrighted it in April 1895 and later issued it as a supplement to the paper, which mixed crime reporting with boxing and sporting news. Chromolithography layered several color stones or plates to reproduce images cheaply, making supplements like this a popular way to put players' likenesses in front of ordinary readers. The sheet is a snapshot of the league's leaders in the mid-1890s.
| Created / published | New York : Richard K. Fox, c1895 Apr. 20. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1890-1900.Chromolithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 23877 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Copyrighted 1895 by Richard K. Fox, Police Gazette, New York. Published in: Supplement to the Police Gazette, vol. LXVI, no. 926 (1895 June 1st), Richard K. Fox Propr. |
| Subjects | Baseball players--United States--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,064 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109257 |
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