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Photograph of African American baseball player eating

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09978.08 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1925 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; Order a Copy

One photograph of an African American baseball player eating dated circa 1925. A man in a Powell Grocery uniform is under a tree eating a sandwich behind him there are other people standing with their backs to him.

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