Rollie Zeider, Chicago AL (baseball) – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Rollie Zeider, Chicago AL (baseball). An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Rollie Zeider, Chicago AL (baseball)
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Rollie Zeider played infield for the Chicago White Sox, and this glass negative from about 1912 captures him as a working ballplayer of the early 1910s. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news photographs made by the Bain News Service in New York and distributed to newspapers across the country. Bain's photographers often worked from caption cards that were written in haste, so names were sometimes misspelled; the original card here reads "Zieber," and the spelling was corrected later by baseball researchers. The glass plate format of the period gives the picture its sharp detail and makes it a useful record of how the Sox looked in that era.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Zieber, Chisox. Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,723 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12135 |
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