Baseball Game in Progress at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1870-1880

THF291151 / Baseball Game in Progress at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1870-1880
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Artifact Overview

Baseball became increasingly popular, competitive, and organized during the latter half of the 1800s. Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, formed an intermural squad just before the Civil War and played its first interscholastic match in 1866. This image shows a game at Phillips Academy in the 1870s -- perhaps against its rival Phillips Exeter Academy.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1870-1880

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

2019.11.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard

Technique

Albumen process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 6.5 in
Width: 8.938 in

Inscriptions

written on back: I think this is at Andover