Philadelphia Base Ball Club – Vintage 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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Philadelphia Base Ball Club
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This photograph shows the Philadelphia Base Ball Club, a team name that places the picture in the city's early professional baseball scene, when Philadelphia fielded a National League club and amateur and semi-pro nines played across the region. Team portraits from the 1880s typically show players in matching flannel uniforms posed with bats and balls, reflecting how the sport was just becoming organized into a business. The record credits Goodwin & Co. with the copyright, but the date and other caption details come from an older card and have not been verified, so the picture is best read as a snapshot of the period's baseball culture.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by Goodwin & Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Baseball; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,109 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131852 |
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