Harry Hooper, Boston AL (baseball) – Historic Reproduction
![Harry Hooper, Boston AL (baseball), [1912] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f5/f57543ae6da1-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 Harry Hooper, Boston AL (baseball) in remarkable 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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Harry Hooper, Boston AL (baseball)
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Harry Hooper, shown here in his Boston American League uniform, was a longtime outfielder for the Red Sox. The negative came from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news pictures to newspapers, and its glass plates now form the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. The 1912 date matches the season Boston won the World Series over the New York Giants, and Hooper played in that championship. Glass negatives of this size were working tools for press photographers, so the portrait also shows how quickly sports images moved into print in that era.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| 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: Hooper, Bosox. 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 | 5,723 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12744 |
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