Ira Thomas, Philadelphia AL (baseball) – Antique Wall Art
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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 Ira Thomas, Philadelphia AL (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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Ira Thomas, Philadelphia AL (baseball)
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Catcher Ira Thomas is shown here in his years with the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League, a club he caught for during the 1910s. Thomas was known more for his defense and his work handling pitchers than for his hitting, a reputation that suited a team built around Connie Mack's pitching staff. The picture comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news and sports photographs to newspapers, and its glass negatives now form part of the Library of Congress's Bain collection. The date appears in brackets because it was assigned through later research rather than recorded when the photograph was made.
| 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: Thomas, Phila. 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 | 5,785 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15268 |
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