Canvas Print: African American Baseball Team, Danbury, Connecticut, 1880
Canvas Print: African American Baseball Team, Danbury, Connecticut, 1880
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  • Title: African American Baseball Team, Danbury, Connecticut, 1880
  • Description: Photograph showing 23 men wearing suits, sitting and standing, one holding a baseball bat; they are members of an African American men's baseball team, possibly in Danbury, Connecticut.
  • Creator: Ritton, Edward David, 1823-1892, photographer
  • Subjects: African Americans--Sports--Connecticut--Danbury--1870-1900, Baseball players--Connecticut--Danbury--1870-1900
  • Collection: Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs. The William A. Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs consists of images showing African Americans and related military and social history. The Civil War era is the primary time period covered, with scattered examples through 1945. Most of the images are photographs, including cartes de visite. Subjects of special note include Sojourner Truth, fugitive slaves, former slave children from New Orleans, and freed slaves at Seabrook Plantation in South Carolina. Military service photographs document participation in the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish American War, and World War I. Several photographs show Buffalo Soldiers, and one album is filled with portraits of officers of the 25th United States Colored Troops. Baseball is the theme for a group portrait from Danbury, CT, and a panoramic view of the 1924 Colored World Series opening game.
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