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Earliest Photo of a Big Time Baseball Game
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This could well be the earliest photo of a big time baseball game. The huge pennant of the Hudson River Base Ball Club flies above the field near Newburgh, New…
Ray Chapman Sliding In • Joe Jackson Watching
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Real photo postcard 1913
Encounter with Martin Dihigo in Havana’s Tropical Stadium
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This photograph of an encounter in Havana’s Tropical Stadium is alive not because of the key figure, Martin Dihigo, who stands toward the rear of the group wearing a straw hat. …
Cincinnati Red Stockings On The Field in 1890
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Oh, was my mind blown when I first saw this photograph of the Cincinnati Red Stockings on the field when it surfaced at a Christie’s auction in the late 1980s;…
Pirates Manager Frankie Frisch & Unidentified Umpire in Dispute
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Pittsburgh Pirates Manager Frankie Frisch and an unidentified umpire in dispute is one of the first baseball photos I ever kept. It is a story in itself, though the precise history and…
When Floods Arrive
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Floods . . . It is an awful event when it will not stop raining. It’s worse when you live downhill from the water in the flood plain. And sometimes…
Baseball in Action Photography – Pure Beauty
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This baseball in action photo is pure aesthetics. No one famous, no critical moment, no historical reference, no statistic generated, and look, no one in the stands, either. But check…
Umpire Emmett Ashford Ruling
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News photograph 1950 Dominican
Are You Lyin’?
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I believe that many people do not really take in what they are looking at. People tend to glance at images, immediately categorize them, and think they understand what they…
Armando Marsans Sliding Lessons
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News photograph 1920
No longer Anonymous – A Professional BaseBall Player? Yes Indeed!
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You can tell a real ball player from a pretender in a photograph. You can also tell a professional from an amateur just from the way they wear their uniform.…
Trojan Horse – A Citrus Label
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It is amazing the lengths advertisers can go to in creating an eye-catching image to sell their product. It was probably not necessary to go to these artistic lengths to…
1914 World Series Prologue
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“And what’s that big, pink elephant doing in the left field stands?” asks Boston Braves captain Johnny Evers. The discussion is going on at home plate before game two of…
Carlos Colas Triumphant
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What we know: That’s Carlos Colas riding triumphantly atop a crowd of fans, who carry their hero around the stadium. He had, just minutes before, hit a grand-slam walk off…
The Negro Alphabet – An Unusual ABC Book
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The paper string bound book entitled “The Negro Alphabet” was printed in Kingston, Jamaica by Ashton W. Gardner & Company and drawn by V. Heaven. Searches have turned up no…
Thousands more to come
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Thousands more images to come! Please email us for more information on the collection or image consulting services.
What triggered this wild baseball scene?
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The culprit, according to the wire photo caption, was Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale, who sent a fastball a bit too close to Johnny Logan’s head. Logan, who was ready to…
Musical Dope 1909
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Sheet music cover illustration 1909
Zoo Zoo Tobacco
Advertising trade card 1880
Yosemite Music
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Sheet music 1910
Yellow Jacket Coffee
Advertising trade card 1880
Whoo
Advertising trade card 1880
Watermelon Seeds
Advertising trade card 1880
Vigor Brand
Fruit crate label 1940
Valley In Summer
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Postcard 1910
Turnip Man
Advertising trade card 1885
Trick Doggies
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Carte-de-Visite photograph 1870
Tiger Hunt
Advertising trade card 1900
Thread Captures Lion
Advertising trade card 1880
Success On The Farm
Advertising calendar panel 1930
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