Tris Speaker, Boston AL (baseball) – Antique Wall Art
(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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Tris Speaker, Boston AL (baseball) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Tris Speaker, Boston AL (baseball)
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Tris Speaker, the Red Sox center fielder, is the subject of this 1912 glass negative, which was made in late September during the season Boston went on to win the American League pennant and the World Series over the New York Giants. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers, produced the image, and its plates now form part of the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. The date and caption come from the agency's own cards, which makes the picture a useful record of how the press covered the team that fall.
| Created / published | 1912 Sept. 28. |
|---|---|
| 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: Speaker, Red Sox, 1912, 9/28/12. Title 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 | 5,797 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12201 |
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