Babe Ruth, 3/23/22 – Antique Print
(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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Babe Ruth, 3/23/22
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This glass negative shows Babe Ruth, the Yankees slugger, on a date that appears in the title as March 23, 1922, though the record notes that the title comes from unverified data written on the negatives or caption cards. Ruth had joined the Yankees in 1920 and had already reshaped the game with his home run hitting, so a portrait from this period captures him at the height of his fame. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, produced thousands of pictures of athletes, politicians and public figures, and its glass negatives are now part of the Library of Congress collection. Its glass plates offer a detailed view of early twentieth-century press photography.
| Created / published | 03/23/22. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 6,456 × 8,903 px · prints to 22 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35180 |
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