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Crowd watching "playograph" at Herald Building, World Series, 1911 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Sean and Sylvia Forman said:

  MLB Gameday Circa 1910.

• Wystan said:

  The Herald was an important newspaper that later merged to become the New York Herald-Tribune. The Herald didn't have a patent on this device; a Google search of "Playograph" discovers that they were used by newspapers in numerous towns across the country -- often inside a theater, with an admission charge. Here is a football version, called a "Grid Graph," from 1923: www.flickr.com/photos/70251312@N00/2298930159/

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thanks for the fuller information. We patched the typo in the glass negative caption transcription, too.

• ann_arbor_deadhead said:

  what passed for big screen TV, back in the day!

• Mark Sobba said:

  I love the cops keeping the peace in the photo.