Al Bridwell & Jimmy Archer, Chicago NL (baseball) – Vintage 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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Al Bridwell & Jimmy Archer, Chicago NL (baseball) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Al Bridwell & Jimmy Archer, Chicago NL (baseball)
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Two Chicago Cubs, shortstop Al Bridwell and catcher Jimmy Archer, are the subjects of this 1913 glass negative from the Bain News Service. Bridwell is best remembered for the single he hit in September 1908, which drove in the winning run for the New York Giants and set off the controversy over Fred Merkle's missed base. Archer, an Irish-born catcher, was a steady presence behind the plate for the Cubs in the early 1910s. The Bain agency sold news photographs to newspapers across the country, so portraits like this one document how working ballplayers were presented to the public in the years before radio and television.
| 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: Bridwell & Archer (Cubs). 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 | 5,753 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15042 |
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