Frank Hardy Made My Photographs Two

The images that I am going to post today are from glass plate negatives that I purchased off of the Internet a while back.  The first one is of a baseball team somewhere from the early 1900’s.  No information about the date, team or the players … just an interesting image to me.  I plan on cleaning it up and trying to colorize it at some point, but more on that later.

The team is a little short of players, but who cares?  They were playing for the love of the game.  Now when you watch a baseball game and you see all of the equipment that it takes to field a team, you wonder how these guys got by.  I am sure that they would be stunned to see all of the helmets, shin guards, gloves, etc, etc to see what it takes to get a game going.  And I am not even going to say anything about what these players are making in salaries today … you know that would probably shock them even more!  Next is a couple of kids painting a brick wall …

Here is the whole glass negative scan.  How about those outfits that they are wearing to paint in?  I have no clue of the year here either, but I would have to say late 1890’s or early 1900’s.  More on these later when I have some time to work them up.  Thanks for checking back …