Babe Ruth and mascot – Antique 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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Step back in time with Babe Ruth and mascot, a historic photograph rich in period 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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Babe Ruth and mascot
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Babe Ruth posing with a mascot is one of the lighter moments captured in the George Grantham Bain Collection, the large body of glass negatives produced by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of current events from the early twentieth century. Ruth, the Yankees slugger who became the most famous ballplayer of the 1920s, was a frequent subject for press photographers, and this image shows the kind of staged, good-humored publicity shot that helped keep him in the public eye. The record gives no date, so the exact occasion is unknown, but the glass negative format places it within the agency's working years.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 2,612 × 3,876 px · prints to 9 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36774 |
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