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Crowd watching "playograph," World Series, 1911 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Mark in NOVA said:
    I bet these folks were happy when the radio was invented.
  • Wystan said:
    Outside the headquarters building of the New York Herald. Another paper published there was the Evening Telegram. Games of the 1911 World Series, between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics, were played in October, 1911. The Athletics defeated the Giants.
  • Anne (LOC P&P) said:
    Wystan: Thanks for the additional info. We'll include it in the description next time we update the record.

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.