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Sepia photo of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club & Excelsior Base Ball Club plus umpire at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, NJ, Sept. 3, 1859.
2015.033.0001
2015.033
Purchase
Purchase
Museum Collection.
Williamson, Charles H.
1859
Hoboken
8 in
10 in
Notes: Source for digital reference image: http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/File:1859KnickerbockerandExcelsior.jpg ==== Note on reference image of published photo: The Lincoln State [Evening] Journal; Lincoln, Nebraska, November 7, 1923, page 10. Panorama of Baseball: A Pictorial History of Our National Game; No. 1 - The First Organized Baseball Club: 1845. Article: Copyright 1923 in U.S. and Great Britain distributed by the North American Newspaper Alliance. The photo published with this article is cropped similar to the print in this record with at least two members of each team left out. ---- Same feature article also seen in: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1924, page 31. Original or Copy: Original Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2015-05-29