Each week we scour the web for interesting and historic documents that catch our eye. This week we stumbled across this photograph of baseball player Herman A. “Germany” Schaefer (1876-1919) trying out this camera, a 5×7 Press Graflex by Eastman Kodak, in April 1911.

Photo from Flickr.

• Title: Germany Schaefer, Washington AL (baseball)
• Date Created/Published: 1911 by Bain News Service
• Format: Glass negative
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-09131
• Call Number: LC-B2- 2189-6
• Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
• Stable URL: http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.09131/

This post first appeared on AHA Today.