Chester "Pinch" Thomas, Boston AL (baseball) – Antique Wall Art
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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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Chester "Pinch" Thomas, Boston AL (baseball) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chester "Pinch" Thomas, Boston AL (baseball)
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This portrait shows Chester "Pinch" Thomas, a pitcher for the Boston American League club, which was still widely called the Boston Americans in 1913 and only later became known as the Red Sox. The image survives as a small glass negative from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century. Because the original caption cards are brief, the 1913 date and the player's identification were later confirmed by baseball historians at the Society for American Baseball Research. The picture is a useful record of how team photographs and player portraits were made and distributed during the deadball era.
| 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: Thomas, Bosox. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date 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 | 5,735 × 4,135 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11546 |
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