File:8b09630r ww2 baseballs.jpg

TITLE: New wartime baseball. Cork-cushioned centers in baseballs--official in major leagues for more than a decade--are war-taboo. Rubber-cushioned centers, "borrowed" from stopped golf ball production, offer temporary relief. Left: cork-type ball; right; new baseball with rubber center

CALL NUMBER: LC-USE6- D-008242 [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USE6-D-008242 (b&w film neg.)

MEDIUM: 1 negative : safety ; 5 x 7 inches or smaller.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1943 Jan.

CREATOR:

Smith, Roger, photographer.

RELATED NAMES:

United States. Office of War Information. Freeman, Albert, photographer. Perlitch, William, photographer. Smith, Roger, photographer.

NOTES:

Title and other information from caption card.

Photographed by Albert Freeman, William Perlitch or Roger Smith.

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

LOT 1915 (Location of corresponding print.)

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 41, frame 381.

SUBJECTS:

United States.

FORMAT:

Safety film negatives.

PART OF: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa 8b09630 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b09630

CONTROL #: oem2002006730/PP

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