Base ball park, Silver Lake, Ohio, 1905 – Vintage Photo 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.)
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This historic image of Base ball park, Silver Lake, Ohio, 1905 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: [Base ball park, Silver Lake, Ohio, 1905]
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Base ball park, Silver Lake, Ohio, 1905
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Silver Lake, a small village in Summit County, Ohio, was a place where farm families and village residents in 1905 still relied on their own recreation grounds, and a ballpark like this one served as a gathering spot for the whole community. The county's economy was shifting fast that decade, since Akron had become a center of rubber manufacturing, and factory workers and their neighbors in nearby towns often turned to baseball as their main weekend entertainment. Local clubs, many of them sponsored by churches, lodges, or employers, played on Saturday afternoons and holidays, and crowds of spectators came by foot, by horse and buggy, or on the interurban electric lines that linked the valley towns to Akron and Cuyahoga Falls. Baseball in the 1900s carried a strong sense of civic pride, and for people in a village like Silver Lake, a home team was a point of local identity.
| Created / published | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Creator | johnston, r. w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Ohio |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,196 × 947 px · prints to 17 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Base ball park, Silver Lake, Ohio, 1905] |
| Reference | OH 1905 Base ball park, Silver Lake |
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