Kid Gleason, Chi., 1919 – Historic Photograph 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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Kid Gleason, Chi., 1919 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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Kid Gleason, Chi., 1919
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Kid Gleason, the Chicago White Sox manager shown here, was William J. Gleason, a former second baseman whose nickname came from his small stature. The 1919 date places the portrait in the season when Gleason was running the club that would soon face the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series, a team later tied to the Black Sox scandal. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio that documented public figures and events in the early twentieth century. Its survival as a glass negative, with some surface streaking from age, is typical of that era's photographic plates.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one. |
| Subjects | Gleason, William J.--1866-1933. Chicago White Sox (Baseball team) Baseball managers. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,165 × 4,159 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-229815 |
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