Wash. University ball team in Japan – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Wash. University ball team in Japan. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Wash. University ball team in Japan
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The record names a ball team from "Wash. University" in Japan, but that title comes from unverified notes made by the Bain News Service, and the school itself is not confirmed. No date survives, so the picture has to be placed by its period. The Bain agency, based in New York, supplied photographs to newspapers from about 1900 into the 1920s. Baseball was already popular at Japanese universities by then, and American college teams made goodwill trips across the Pacific, which drew crowds and press attention. Anyone studying the image should treat the team's identity and the date of the trip as open questions.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,134 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31012 |
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