This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/29/2012
This lot of 9 photos features an assortment of club owners, league presidents and commissioners. Included are Warren Giles, William Crosley, E.S. Barnard, Ford Frick, Will Harridge, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Leslie O'Connor, George Weiss, Calvin Griffith, Joe Cronin, Billy Evans, Connie Mack, Bill DeWitt, Bill Veeck, Thomas Yawkey, Samuel Breadon, P.K. Wrigley, Donald Barnes, Horace Stoneham, Alva Bradley, Jack Zeller, Branch Rickey, Leo Durocher, Casey Stengel, Fred Pfeffer and Bill McKechnie. Measurements range from 6.5" x 8.5" to 8" x 10". Photos contain various handwritten notations, affixed cutlines and date & photographer stamps on their reverse. Seattle Times Archives Holograms. (N0468)
The Seattle Times originated as the Seattle Press-Times, a four page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily circulation of 3,500, which Maine teacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought in 1896. This is an original photo, in many cases a Type 1 printed at the time of the event. File copies or type 2 photos are also found, and can be distinguished by the markings on the reverse.
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