“Harvard Varsity Base-Ball Team.” Manuscript title

by photog Tupper, H. William

$2,750 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Cambridge, Mass., 1904. Large silver print mounted on gray paperboard, 13.25” x 15.75”. Manuscript captions in white above and below photo. CONDITION: Image very good; loss to surface of mount. A rare original photograph of Harvard University’s 1904 baseball team, featuring pathbreaking star shortstop William Clarence Matthews, who broke the color barrier in professional baseball and went on to work in Washington, D.C. as one of

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