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Title
Former Baseball Team Mates Greet Walter Johnson at an Exhibition Game at the Brea Bowl [graphic]
Alternative Title
Digital Anaheim
Date Created and/or Issued
October 31, 1924 (issued)
Contributing Institution
Anaheim Public Library
Collection
Anaheim Public Library photograph collection on Anaheim local history
Rights Information
Property rights reside with the Anaheim Public Library. Literary rights are generally retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce, please contact the Local History Curator.
Description
Accession number: P244
Back of one photograph inscribed in pencil with "Gift of Charles Tuffree".
Photograph loaned by Mildred Yorba MacArthur, Anaheim.
Photograph re-copied by Ray Pound.
Group portrait of baseball player Walter Johnson (pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1907-1927) and former team mates at the exhibition game held on Oct. 31, 1924 at the Brea Bowl (near corner of Brea Blvd. and Birch St.), played for the benefit of the Anaheim Elks Christmas Charity Fund by a group of major league players (including Babe Ruth and the Ruth All-Stars) on a barn-storming tour of the country; image shows 15 men standing at the Brea Bowl with grandstands in background; figures are identified from left to right as 1. Joe Wagner; 2. [...] Canney [?]; 3. Lafayette Lewis; 7. Walter Johnson; 8. Bob Isbell; 9. Joe Burke (manager of the Anaheim Oil Wells team.)
Type
image
Format
3 Photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
2 Negatives: 4 x 5 in.
Form/Genre
Photographic print
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5c60197d
Subject
Johnson, Walter Perry--1887-1946
Lewis, Lafayette A--1889-1966
Wagner, Joseph E--1880-1966
Canney, [?]--act. 1924
Isbell, Robert--act. 1924
Burke, Joseph--act. 1924
Brea Bowl--ca. 1924--California
Recreation--1900-Present
Baseball fields--California--Anaheim
Baseball players
Portraits, Group
Anaheim (Calif.)--Photographs
Time Period
Recreation -- 1900-Present
Place
Brea Bowl
ca. 1924
California
Baseball fields
Anaheim.
Anaheim (Calif.)
Photographs

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