Baseball Game under Tall Trees

Identifier

PUA_MS154_033

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: Year(s)

1910/1914

Date: Display

circa 1910-1914

Subject

Baseball

Place

Forest Grove, Oregon

Gales Creek, Oregon

Medium

Gelatin silver negatives

Source

Pacific University Archives

Copyright

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