Wanted to Share This Amazing 19th Century Photo

[irv]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

Ken Burns wrote in American Heritage that his favorite baseball photograph is this 1882 image showing a Dartmouth-Harvard game on the northwest corner of the Green. See photos below...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dartmo...ream/lightbox/

I believe that photo/article has been posted here before as it looks familiar to me.

Great grab, Javan. Could be of interest to many here since it seemed to have piqued Ken Burns interest.

[GaryPassamonte]

Exceptional image!

[piecesofthegame]

Amazing insights and info. This is why Net54 is the BEST! Thanks all!

[steve B]

Contributed to a Dartmouth magazine, either in or before 1951

https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagaz...51/3/1/letters

[piecesofthegame]

Steve, very interesting. The photo caption in the article says “contributed by T.D. Cram”. My photo has the name T.D. Cram hand written on the back as scene in my pics.

[piecesofthegame]

So based off the info in that article, the owner of my photo, T.D. Cram, had a brother Nathan who was the catcher in this game/photo. Fascinating connection.

[vintagesportscollector]

Great connection! Adds a whole new level the the photo. If I were a Dartmouth collector it would truly be a holy grail item. Collecting Cornell memorabilia deeply myself, making connections like this is by far the best part of collecting for me.

One poster commented how surprised it is that the Dartmouth library would deaccession that photo. Shockingly it’s not surprising at all. It happened all the time across university, and all libraries, in the day. Most likely the Dartmouth library never knew it “left” their archives, probably many many years ago before digital cataloging and better security measures were put in place. A lot of items just simply "walked out" of libraries before the libraries understood the value of what they had.