Kitty Bransfield, Philadelphia, NL (baseball) – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Kitty Bransfield, Philadelphia, NL (baseball). It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Kitty Bransfield, Philadelphia, NL (baseball)
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Kitty Bransfield was a first baseman who spent most of his career with the Philadelphia Phillies, and this glass negative captures him as a player of the National League in the early 1910s. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs assembled by the Bain News Service in New York, which supplied pictures of sports, politics and everyday life to newspapers across the country. Bain's photographers often labeled their negatives with a player's name and team, and the baseball pictures from this period give a useful record of the uniforms, equipment and ballpark routines of the time. The date of about 1910 rests on later research by the Society for American Baseball Research rather than on a date written on the plate itself.
| Created / published | [1910] |
|---|---|
| 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: Bransfield of Phila. N. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,803 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9223 |
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