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Originally Posted by aquarius31
Hand colored salt print 1860s
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Thank you! That's pretty awesome! I'd say that's a good early start!
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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
Not sure about photos, but color film had been well developed (no pun intended!) by the late 1930s as documented by the incredible series, "When It Was a Game," largely consisting of ballplayers' home movies taken at ballparks. "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind" were both released in 1939, and there hasn't been a color movie to match those since. In all my research into the life of Walter Johnson, I have never seen a color photo or film of him, despite the fact that he lived until 1946, well into the color era. But color was expensive, and not considered necessary for many years after its invention. Photos from my youth are all black and white until about 1967, when suddenly they're all in color from then on.
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Thank you Hank for sharing your knowledge and research! I'll definitely have to watch that series and keep a look out for the player's home movies.
I thought for sure something might be out there of WaJo.
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Originally Posted by Chris Counts
Here's a snapshot of Ruth Richards and Alice Pollitt, who played together with the Rockford Peaches from 1948 to 1953. I wish I could read the date stamped on the back, but it looks like an old print.
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That's a great one Chris! Might be the first color snapshot of AAGPBL I've seen.
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Originally Posted by NiceDocter
Somewhere in my collection I have a couple of glass slides in color from around 1915... major league baseball game shots, nothing close up. They could have been "colorized" not sure. If I find them I will post......
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Looking forward to seeing it!
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Originally Posted by Lucas00
I've shared these two cardinal snaps before but they are both stamped April 20th 1949.
However the style of birds on the bat was changed to the more "upright" cardinals in 1949. The design shown in these two shots is 1948 or prior. So either these were developed late, or they still had the old style in spring training.
I have seen Kodachrome prints from the early 40s, I have no doubt that some exist of pro ball players from that time period, just have to find them.
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Originally Posted by Lucas00
Real color photos weren't invented until I believe the mid 30s. So anything before that would be hand colored. I don't think anything would exist (snapshot wise) prior to the early 40s.
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Thanks for sharing Lucas! I believe you are correct either ST 1948 or ST 1949 with recycled previous year uniforms. Unless you can figure out what Garagiola is signing
Interesting thing I noticed about your color snapshots & mine are both are rounded corner edges vs. straight edge. Wonder if that's how it came?
In terms of color baseball snapshot photos, I haven't seen anything earlier than yours (as of now). In theory, earlier photos "should" be out there...but I never seen them
Given the cost and WW2 I do wonder if that's another factor into not discovering more earlier snapshots.
Even early & mid 1950s color baseball snapshots are very tough to find, since families went with 35mm slides instead.
09-04-2024, 09:51 PM
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