Adrian Giants baseball team playing on field
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Description
Baseball team playing on field. Fans on stands in background; boys standing and sitting in foreground. Printed on back: "The Page Fence Giants of Adrian, Michigan in action. The team operated, as a promotion of it's [sic] sponsor, the Page Woven Wire Fence Company, from 1894 through the end of the 1898 season. The 1896 version of the team defeated the famed Cuban Giants, the most powerful black team in the East, to claim the 'Colored Championship'." Printed on mailing address label on back: "Mr. Richard Bak" with street address.
Details
- Resource ID:
- hr004067
- Subject:
- Baseball teams--Michigan--Adrian
- African American baseball players--Michigan--Adrian
- Negro leagues--Michigan--Adrian
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1894-1898
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- Ernie Harwell Sports Collection
- Location:
- Photographs-Teams-Adrian, Page Fence Giants
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.