1st game - 1912 World Series at the Polo Grounds, New York (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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of 1st game - 1912 World Series at the Polo Grounds, New York (baseball). Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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1st game - 1912 World Series at the Polo Grounds, New York (baseball)
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Game 1 of the 1912 World Series, played at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan, is the event this glass negative records. The Giants hosted the Boston Red Sox there that October, in a Series that ran eight games, with one tie, before Boston took the title. The George Grantham Bain Collection came from the Bain News Service, a news photo agency that sold pictures of current events to newspapers, so the image is a working record of the ballpark and its crowd. The title and date rest on later research by the Society for American Baseball Research, so they reflect a reconstruction rather than a caption written at the time.
| Created / published | [1912] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Polo grounds. 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 | 5,691 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11991 |
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