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Octavius VCattophotographedby Me – Vintage Photo Print

Octavius VCattophotographedby Me — historic photograph
Octavius VCattophotographedby Me. Historic photograph 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Octavius VCattophotographedby Me. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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This portrait shows Octavius V. Catto, the Philadelphia educator and civil rights leader who also played ball for the Pythian Base Ball Club, one of the first Black teams in the city in the late 1860s. Catto taught at the Institute for Colored Youth and campaigned for streetcar desegregation and for Black men's right to vote after the Fifteenth Amendment. He was shot and killed in Philadelphia on election day in October 1871, during violence at the polls. His life links two causes that rarely get discussed together: the fight for a fair place on the ball field and the fight for a fair place at the ballot box.

Original scan3,752 × 4,977 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
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