Jackie Robinson Stealing Home

May 18, 1952

American 20th Century

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This is a grayscale photograph of a baseball play at home plate. On the right, a baseball player is sliding into home base, kicking up dust. His hat is flying off of his head, and both of his feet and one of his hands are on the ground, his body facing us. On the left, a catcher is reaching towards the sliding player. Behind the catcher, a person dressed in all black is observing the play, and near the upper left corner of the photograph another player stands nearby, watching and holding a bat. The background is gray dirt, with a white line running from the upper right-hand corner towards the sliding player.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 14.7 × 21.5 cm (5 13/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 15.3 × 22.8 cm (6 × 9 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.591


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, top right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: n e z 0 8 8 4 2 / www.historicimages.com; upper right stamped in blue ink inverted: REFERENCE / MAY 28 1952 / LIBRARY; by unknown hand, center in graphite inverted: 8 00 AM / [illegible]; lower right in graphite perpendicular: Jackie Robinson / Los Angeles Dodgers; bottom center in blue crayon inverted: 601


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