Photographer Unknown: Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Photographer Unknown: Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
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.