[Germany Schaefer, Washington AL (baseball)] (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Germany Schaefer, Washington AL (baseball)]

[1911] (date created or published later by Bain)

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 This digital image represents the millionth item scanned for the Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress.
Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Schaefer, Washington.
Photo shows Herman A. "Germany" Schaefer (1876-1919), one of the most entertaining characters in baseball history, trying out the other side of the camera during the Washington Senators visit to play the New York Highlanders in April, 1911. Germany Schaefer, a versatile infielder and quick baserunner, played most of his career with the Detroit Tigers and the Washington Senators.
The camera is a 5x7 Press Graflex. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
 Baseball players.
Cameras.
Baseball

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09131

Call Number: LC-B2- 2189-6

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    TooheyMomster, markov chaney, NailaJ, jmv, and 640 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. quasistoic (60 months ago | reply)

    That camera is going on my Amazon wishlist right now.

  3. It'sGreg (60 months ago | reply)

    Everybody needs a volkswagen-sized camera. This is brilliant.

  4. Richard- (60 months ago | reply)

    Wonderful image. I'm so glad the LOC is up here. This is going to be a heck of a lot of fun!

  5. kevan can't! (60 months ago | reply)

    This is amazing.

  6. John Melskens (60 months ago | reply)

    To carry that camera around all day....
    Makes me glad we have digital cameras now.

  7. hasret_sali (60 months ago | reply)

    i would like to have one of those cameras if you still have one like that

  8. Vidiot (60 months ago | reply)

    www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.ph p?name=Germa...

  9. Walljet (60 months ago | reply)

    Greetz from Germany to Germany :-)

  10. _Jenny T _ (60 months ago | reply)

    Wow! The size of that camera!

  11. gelkinghe (60 months ago | reply)

    This picture is of 1911. In a Dutch paper of may 1895 I found an ad for lighter camera's, special for ladies:
    gelkinghe.web-log.nl/gelkinghe/2007/12/geen_v akkennis_.html

  12. shinnphoto (60 months ago | reply)

    Even back then people thought it was funny to take a picture of someone taking a picture. Some things never change.

  13. *Milou* (60 months ago | reply)

    That camera wouldnt fit in my purse!

  14. blognoxious (60 months ago | reply)

    You might find this camera a little larger:

    robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/

  15. Olinad Rellse (60 months ago | reply)

    oh! i'm sure it's really heavy, but this camera delivered finest and clear photos, i wish i have those camera as my collections 'a vintage camera'.

  16. e_pics (59 months ago | reply)

    Very funny that he is still wearing his glove! Must have been a novelty shot. Great to see the LOC here on flickr.

  17. dou_ble_you (59 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called In the Studio, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

  18. photo-geek (59 months ago | reply)

    and I thought I had it tough!

  19. dennis gray (59 months ago | reply)

    What no auto focus

  20. Bookeditor (59 months ago | reply)

    I don't think that's a camera--it may very well be the the first practice pitching machine...

  21. Daniel Greene (59 months ago | reply)

    It's neat to see an old camera like that-- especially in the hands of a ballplayer!

  22. Tiago Celestino (59 months ago | reply)

    simplesmente muito show. Fico imaginando o peso disso.

  23. Adjen (59 months ago | reply)

    Pictures like this make me realize how dull digital cameras are. Imagine the same picture but with him using an iPhone camera? Nowhere near as flavorful.

  24. danperry.com (59 months ago | reply)

    What a great shot.

  25. Mute* (59 months ago | reply)

    I love it! What a monster of a camera.

  26. da70 (59 months ago | reply)

    Wow 1,000,000 digital pictures. Thanks for making these available. It sure makes it great for research.
    Wonder where the picture is he took with that huge camera?

  27. porkfork6 (59 months ago | reply)

    Must have been a very chilly day in April, the gentleman in the background bundled up, and the ball player wearing longjohns under a woolen baseball uniform.

  28. jongoell (59 months ago | reply)

    I believe that this particular camera is a Telephoto Graflex SLR that used 5x7 inch glass plates or film. The lenses were interchangable,
    and were all long-focus types, usually pretty fast for the time (like f/4.5). The camera had a vertical-traveling cloth focal-plane shutter capable of action-stopping speeds like 1/1000 sec. It is similar to the type of camera used by Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

    Jon

  29. Thomas Hardy (59 months ago | reply)

    Beyond large.

  30. narendranst (59 months ago | reply)

    The composition is awesome .. the flag and the crowd shows the image of the player and the edges remind us the age of the picture .. truly classical

  31. vasco.r (59 months ago | reply)

    Wonderful Picture.

  32. The Studio B Photography Atlanta (59 months ago | reply)

    This is wonderful...Everything is fantastic from the old fashioned camera, to the clothes, and baseball!!! Can't get more American than that!

  33. Craig Zacker (59 months ago | reply)

    id love to see the photos taken by him...lol

  34. CUSQUENIAN (58 months ago | reply)

    Excelente fotografía...........!!!!!

    Te invito cordialmente al grupo PHOTOGRAPHERS / FOTOGRAFOS y nos encantaría agregar esta y otras fotos tuyas sobre el tema. Saludos.......!!!!!

  35. CUSQUENIAN (58 months ago | reply)

    Hola, soy el administrador de un grupo llamado PHOTOGRAPHERS / FOTOGRAFOS y nos encantaría agregar tu foto al grupo.

  36. sxyblkmn (57 months ago | reply)

    look at that cool ass camera

    wonderful

  37. Prophet 1877 (57 months ago | reply)

    wow. now that is a camera. these shots are all fascinating. :)

  38. pacman2489 (56 months ago | reply)

    Funny picture of Germany Schaefer. It is hilarious how he looks, how big the camera is and how he is holding it. Even the guy in the background with the top hat looks like he is laughing.

  39. luvdatrodinal likes juried groups (56 months ago | reply)

    looks like a barrel lens

    --
    Seen in a discussion of Handheld Large Format Camera. (?)

  40. Allan1952 (55 months ago | reply)

    "This photograph is a WINNER!"


    the BEST of Flickr!!!

    **********PREVIEW***********
    This photograph is a WINNER!
    Best of Flickr
    the BEST of Flickr!!!

  41. Digital_Third_Eye (54 months ago | reply)

    BEHOLD! the creator of FlickR and his camera!

  42. mlfeatherston (53 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic image!

  43. mrdarius (51 months ago | reply)

    last time the brewers were in the playoffs

  44. Hoelehoep (50 months ago | reply)

    wow, hard to make a pic on the right time. Good one!

  45. nelder_g (49 months ago | reply)

    Hola, soy el administrador de un grupo llamado Antiguas y nos encantaría agregar esto al grupo.

  46. RUNURUN (49 months ago | reply)

    this photo was very classic,fantastic and so bombasstic!!! i wish i can turn back the time...and be one of the humans in this photo =)

  47. banjoray555 (49 months ago | reply)

    Great photo of a pilar in photography. For our fellow photographers in the past their trade was no easy task, and their equipment cumbersome...but it worked as a stepping-stone for better equipment and lovely photos !!!

  48. todotienesulimite (49 months ago | reply)

    Cuidate .

  49. banjoray555 (49 months ago | reply)

    I try my best to keep healthy and safe...

  50. bonksie61 (49 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Almost Anything FRUIT AND VEG COMP... Get entering., and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  51. PeacockDesigns (49 months ago | reply)

    That's the "pocket" version large format. ;O)
    What Backache?

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