Photographer Unknown: Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation

Photographer Unknown: Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation

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Photographer Unknown

Press Photographs of Baseball Players

No reserve

Lot Closed

October 3, 02:30 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Various Press Photographers

Press Photographs of Baseball Players


a group of 364 photographs, many with applied gouache and ink on the image, player identification stamped or written in ink or pencil and with Associated Press and World Wide Photographs stamps on the reverse, 1924-73

various sizes to 9½ by 7½ in. (24.1 by 19.1 cm.)

Chicago Tribune Photography Archives

Private collection, 2014

Secondhand (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2016), pp. 10, 23-7 (these prints)

This extensive group of press photographs of major and minor league baseball players and umpires includes portraits of team members from the Giants, Pirates, Red Sox, Nationals, Yankees, Cubs, and more. Among the photographs are portraits of Don Mueller, Pee Wee Reese, Eddie Stanky, Del Baker, Tommy Heinrich, Curtis Davis, Bill Lee, and Fred Fitzsimmons.