Younger Boys Playing Baseball at the Rochester House of Refuge
Description
A color slide of a stereograph card of a baseball game between the younger boys at the Rochester House of Refuge circa 1871. The foreground shows the north side of the courtyard, where a baseball game is being played. A large crowd of spectators is standing along the first baseline. In the background is the north wing of the main building. A wall on the right side of the image separates the younger boys from the unseen older boys' baseball game. Information written on the slide reads, "Rochester House of Refuge BB SV"
Player(s)
Team(s)
Unknown
League(s)
Unknown
Picture Date
1871–1875
Subject
Boys; Children; Amateur; Juvenile delinquents; Reformatories
Source
Unknown
Stadium
Unknown
Location
Rochester (N.Y.)
Folder Name / Binder
Slides Photography: Tintypes Stereo Vws
Photographer
Bacon, Franklin Wright, 1819-1901
Media Type
Slides (photographs)