Eddie Foster, Washington AL (baseball) – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Eddie Foster, Washington AL (baseball), a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Eddie Foster, Washington AL (baseball)
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Eddie Foster is the ballplayer named here, shown in a 1913 glass negative as a member of the Washington American League club, which is the detail that separates this portrait from the many other baseball subjects in the Bain collection. Foster played third base and the outfield for Washington in the early 1910s, a period when the team was among the weaker sides in the American League and when photographers working for the Bain News Service were regularly sent to ballparks and studios to build a stock of sports images for newspapers. Glass negatives like this one were the standard working format of the day, and the caption information was written by Bain staff, so the identification reflects period practice. The title and date were later confirmed through research by the Society for American Baseball Research.
| 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: Foster, Wash. 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 | 5,209 × 3,683 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13412 |
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