Magic Lantern slide of 'Alerts' Alameda Baseball Team, c. 1911
Entry/Object ID
1999.225.4
Description
Acc. No. 99.225.4
Subject Category: Sports - Baseball Team (the Alerts)
Date or Period: Circa 1900
Object: Glass Photographic slide
Description: Glass magic lantern photographic slide with an ornamental gold border, framed with black paper tape around its margins. A white descriptive label is along the left margin with a pencilled script reading: "Alameda Champion Ball Team"; also a small round white label reading "4" and the name 'Hawke'. Photographer unknown.
Size: L3 1/4 x W-4 in.
History of Object: Uniformed baseball team, the "Alerts", posed outdoors in front of a chain link fence. The Alameda Alerts played in the Central California League in the 1910-1911 season.
Acquired from: Fred Croll
Date: 5/1/99
Pre-1971 donation, hitherto uncataloged.
