Baseball player in Boston uniform, cabinet card portrait – Vintage Wall Art
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A window into the past: Baseball player in Boston uniform, cabinet card portrait, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Baseball player in Boston uniform, cabinet card portrait
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A ballplayer posed in a Boston uniform, mounted on a stiff cabinet card, offers a glimpse of how the sport was packaged for fans in the late nineteenth century. Cabinet cards, roughly 4 by 6 inches, were the standard studio portrait format of that era, sold by photographers and collected by admirers who wanted images of favorite players and teams. Boston's clubs were among the best known of the period, and studio portraits like this one show players in full uniform and formal poses, long before action photography became common. The record does not name the subject, so the portrait is best read as a window into how early baseball presented itself to the public.
| Original scan | 3,653 × 5,408 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 13 |
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