Historical Photo Archive - "Major League Baseball All Stars - 1937" Limited Edition 16x22 Fine Art Giclee on Paper #68/375 (PA LOA)

July 7, 1937. Sluggers galore at Griffith Stadium. Left to right: Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg. Griffith Stadium was a sports stadium that stood in Washington, D.C., from 1911 to 1965, between Georgia Avenue and 5th Street, and between W Street and Florida Avenue NW. An earlier wooden baseball park had been built on the same site in 1891.

This Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee is printed on acid-free museum quality paper with a hand-torn deckled edge. It is hand-titled and hand-numbered. Each piece of art features an embossed seal of quality from the Historical Photo Archive collection. All though this image can be used by others the Historical Photo Archive collection will not produce more than 375 pieces.

Measures approximately 16" x 22" in size.

Photo taken by Harris & Ewing Inc. which was a photographic studio in Washington, D.C., owned and run by George W. Harris and Martha Ewing. As a rookie news photographer, Harris covered the Johnstown flood of 1889 in Pennsylvania. He worked at Hearst News Service in San Francisco from 1900 to 1903, then joined President Theodore Roosevelt's press entourage on a train trip. In the late 1930s Harris & Ewing was the largest photographic studio in the United States at its peak, it had five studios, 120 employees, and a news photo service, which, like Underwood & Underwood, employed large numbers of freelance photographers. Harris died in 1964 at age 92. Harris & Ewing closed in 1977.

Historical Photo Archive -The archival collection contains historically and socially significant imagery that documents the human experience throughout the centuries up to the present day. The collection features sport and music icons, notable luminary’s as well as landmark moments.

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