Text on reverse: "The Proximity and White Oak Mills each has its Base Ball Team. The members of the team all work in the mills. They have their managers and arrange games with teams from neighboring towns, their exhibitions being most creditable. The company provides a ball park at each mill, and every Saturday afternoon during the spring and Summer months a match game is held."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. A baseball team of unsmiling light skinned men are arrayed outdoors with their manager(?). The team are arrayed in two rows, the five in front sit on the ground holding baseball bats out in front of them, a catcher's mask and pads also in front of the center man. The six men in the back row sit on chairs, and the manager, dressed in a dark suit, stands in the center behind them; his head is in the center of the frame. All the players wear team light-colored team uniforms with W.O.M. across the chest and striped socks. They are in front of leafy shrubs and tall slender trees.
Notes:
No. 24 in a set of 25 stereocards. The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim.
Cite As:
ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs. 6524/006 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
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