Earl Blackburn, Cincinnati 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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This historic photograph of Earl Blackburn, Cincinnati NL (baseball) brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Earl Blackburn, Cincinnati NL (baseball)
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Earl Blackburn was a pitcher whose brief major league stint came with the Cincinnati club of the National League, and this glass negative captures him in the team's colors during the 1913 season. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the body of work assembled by the Bain News Service, a New York wire photo agency that supplied newspapers with sports and news images in the early twentieth century. Its date and identification were later confirmed by baseball researchers at the Society for American Baseball Research, so the caption reflects careful checking rather than the agency's original note alone. Glass plates like this one were the standard medium of press photography before film became common, and they reward close looking at uniforms, equipment and the posed stance of players of the period.
| 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: Blackburn, 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 | 5,666 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13868 |
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