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Title: [African American baseball team, Danbury, Connecticut]
Creator(s): Ritton, Edward David, 1823-1892, photographer
Date Created/Published: [ca. 1880]
Summary: Photograph showing 23 men wearing suits, sitting and standing, one holding a baseball bat; they are members of an African American men's baseball team, possibly in Danbury, Connecticut.
Notes:
Title from Gladstone collection checklist.
Faint photographer's stamp on verso: E.D. Ritton, Photographer, Danbury, Ct.
Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.322).
General information about the Gladstone collection is available at, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gld
Published in: Baseball Americana : treasures from the Library of Congress / Harry Katz, et al. New York : Smithsonian Books, 2009.
Subjects:
Baseball players--Connecticut--Danbury--1870-1900.
African Americans--Sports--Connecticut--Danbury--1870-1900.
Albumen prints--1870-1900.
Boudoir card photographs--1870-1900.
Group portraits--1870-1900.
Portrait photographs--1870-1900.
Bookmark /2008677253/
Bookmark:2008677253
Bookmark:2008677253
Size
Approximately 8x12 inches.
Note: Some images may have white bars on the sides or top if the original image does not conform to the 8x12 dimensions.
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