Birdie Tebbetts with Grayling Winter Sports Queen, January 1939

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Artifact Overview

George "Birdie" Tebbetts played on the Detroit Tigers as a catcher from 1936 to 1947, with a three-year pause for military service during World War II. He later managed teams in Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Cleveland. In 1939, Tebbetts traveled to Grayling, Michigan, about 200 miles north of Detroit, and posed with the Grayling Winter Sports Queen and a 1939 Mercury sedan.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

30 January 1939

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.833.P.71375.A

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in

Birdie Tebbetts with Grayling Winter Sports Queen, January 1939