Bob Bescher, Cincinnati NL (baseball) – Antique Print
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(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 Bob Bescher, Cincinnati NL (baseball), a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bob Bescher, Cincinnati NL (baseball)
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Bob Bescher, the Cincinnati Reds outfielder, is shown here in a glass negative from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early 1900s. Bescher was one of the fastest base runners of his day and led the National League in stolen bases in 1911. The 1913 date comes from later research by the Society for American Baseball Research rather than from the negative itself, so it is best read as an estimate. Bain's glass negatives capture the look of ballplayers in the years before radio and television made players familiar to fans.
| Created / published | [1913] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Bescher, Cinci. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,672 × 4,160 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13871 |
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