Unidentified player for Washington NL (baseball) – Historic Reproduction
![Unidentified player for Washington NL (baseball), [between 1912 and 1915] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f0/f03216721be0-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Unidentified player for Washington NL (baseball) in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Unidentified player for Washington NL (baseball)
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The only name on the caption card is "Gandill," followed by "Wash.," so the player himself remains unidentified in the record. The Pictorial History Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research dated the picture to roughly 1912 to 1915 and tied it to Washington's team. The George Grantham Bain Collection, built by the Bain News Service in New York, supplied news photographs to newspapers during these years, and its glass negatives capture the look of early baseball portraiture: a single player, posed plainly, with little of the action shots that later became common. Pictures like this one show how the sport was documented before wire photography made the images fast and widely shared.
| Created / published | [between 1912 and 1915] |
|---|---|
| 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: Gandill - 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 | 5,691 × 4,141 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13409 |
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