Snapshots of the Past

Sepia portrait of a baseball player in cap and jersey – Historic Photo Reproduction

Sepia portrait of a baseball player in cap and jersey — historic image
Sepia portrait of a baseball player in cap and jersey. Historic image from the Baseball collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic image of Sepia portrait of a baseball player in cap and jersey brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Sepia portrait of a baseball player in cap and jersey

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A sepia portrait of a ballplayer posed in a cap and jersey, the kind of studio-style image that was common when baseball was becoming a mass spectator sport in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photographers of that era often made such portraits as trade cards, team keepsakes, or souvenirs for fans who wanted a likeness of a favorite player. The warm brown tone comes from the albumen and toned printing processes of the period, which gave these pictures their characteristic cast. Looking closely at the uniform and the cap can reveal how team dress was still taking shape before modern standardized styles.

Original scan5,315 × 3,716 px · prints to 18 × 12 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif18320_WalterJohnsonWashingtonAmerica

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