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Ballplaying Featured on 1862 Letterhead for Camp Doubleday
| Salience | Peripheral | ||||
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| Tags | Drawing, FamousDrawing, Famous | ||||
| Location | Washington DCWashington DC | ||||
| City/State/Country: | Washington, DC, United States | ||||
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| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary | ||||
| Age of Players | AdultAdult | ||||
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| Sources | John Thorn, Tweet on 2/2/22. John notes that the game depicted does not resemble base ball, or wicket, or cricket. | ||||
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| Comment | Camp Doubleday is described in an 1896 source as "just outside Brooklyn city limits." https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/artillery/5th-heavy-artillery-regiment/prison-pens-south; Other sources locate it in Long Island, NY. Another source locates it in Northwest Washington DC: https://www.northamericanforts.com/East/dc.html#NW
David Block suggests the drawing shows Drive ball, a fungo game: see Baseball Before We Knew It (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), page 198. See also Drive Ball.
One auction house in 2015 claimed "This is perhaps the very first piece of American stationery depicting Union soldiers playing baseball. Amazingly, this lithograph has it all by showing Union soldiers at play in Camp Doubleday which, of course, was named after the game's creator Abner Doubleday!"
From John Thorn, "Lithographer is Louis N. Rosenthal of Philadelphia." Born 1824. See https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A79709 Edit with form to add a comment | ||||
| Query | So, was Abner Doubleday somehow connected to this DC Army facility? And/or the NYS facility? Is it clear why someone would create such a letterhead? Edit with form to add a query | ||||
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| Submitted by | John Thorn | ||||
| Submission Note | Tweet, 2/2/22 | ||||
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1862.104 Ballplaying Featured on 1862 Letterhead for Camp Doubleday"
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