Baseball Polka"" – Antique 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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Baseball Polka"" in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Baseball Polka""
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Sheet-music covers rarely paired a dance form with a sport, which sets this lithograph apart from the other baseball pictures on the board. Its title, *Baseball Polka*, suggests the publisher hoped to ride the game's popularity in the late 1860s. By then the National Association of Base Ball Players, founded in 1857, had helped organize the sport, and Civil War soldiers had carried it to many parts of the country. Caption notes for this print are unverified, so the designer and publisher are best checked against the catalog record.
| Created / published | c1867. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Posters; Music covers; Baseball; Advert. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,181 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140804 |
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