Baseball Game under Tall Trees
Title
Baseball Game under Tall Trees
Description
A baseball game near Forest Grove, Oregon circa 1910-1914. Based on notes found with the original, this game might have taken place at Balm Grove in Gales Creek. Tall trees surround the game, while a crowd of mostly male spectators watch. Flaws in the photograph are due to dust and deterioration of the emulsion layer on the negative.
This is one image from a set of glass plate negatives created by William Alonso Clapshaw. Clapshaw was a clerk and shopkeeper who lived near Forest Grove, Oregon for most of his life. He was born in 1880, probably at the family's home in the Hillside neighborhood of Forest Grove, on what is now Clapshaw Hill Road east of Gales Creek. Around 1910-1914, William took an interest in photography and created a set of glass plate negatives documenting scenes near his family's lands as well as images of himself, his friends and family members. He most likely used a silver gelatin dry plate process. The photographs were donated to the Pacific University Archives in 2023.
Creator
Clapshaw, William Alonso, 1880-2011
Date: Display
circa 1910-1914
Identifier
PUA_MS154_033
Subject
Baseball
Place
Forest Grove, Oregon
Gales Creek, Oregon
Medium
Gelatin silver negatives
Copyright
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Source
Pacific University Archives