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Vintage Photo of the Day: Photographers in 1910s


Photographers - Polo Grounds

[1914]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Courtesy of the Library of Congress

About the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress serves as the national library for the United States, based in Washington, DC. With more than 142 million items preserved on some 650 miles of bookshelves, it is also the world's largest library.

The Library has been acquiring photos since the mid-1800s when photography was the hot new technology.

The Prints & Photographs Division takes care of 14 million of the Library's pictures and features more than 1 million through online catalogs.


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