Crowd - autograph signing
Item Information
- Title:
- Crowd - autograph signing
- Description:
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Philadelphia Athletics owner/manager Connie Mack signs autograph(s) for the young boys in North Brookfield, Mass.
- Photographer:
- Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
- Date:
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July 1934
- Format:
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Photographs
- Genre:
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Glass negatives
Portrait photographs
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Leslie Jones Collection
- Series:
- People: Miscellaneous & Unidentified
- Subjects:
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Men
Boys
Autographing
Baseball managers
Mack, Connie, 1862-1956
- Extent:
- 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5h73q4187
- Terms of Use:
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Copyright (c) Leslie Jones.
All rights reserved.
- Notes:
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Original data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Crowd - autograph signing?, n.d.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011.
At the July All-Star break in 1934, Mack took his Athletics team to his birthplace of North Brookfield, Mass. for an exhibition game against a local semi-pro team. Noted songwriter George M. Cohan, also a native of Brookfield, wrote a song about Mack and a large ceremony was held (Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011).
- Accession #:
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08_06_008828
