Lot # 2473: 1916 Chicago White Sox Team Panoramic Photograph with Joe Jackson

Exceedingly rare panoramic presentation photograph featuring the 1916 Chicago White Sox, including six of the future banned 1919 Black Sox players (Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver, Happy Felsch, Fred McMullin, Lefty Williams, and Eddie Cicotte). The entire team is lined up, seated or crouched in their White Sox home uniforms. Joe Jackson is on the far left. Behind the players are their guests, the delegates to the annual National Rural Letter Carriers Association convention. The Association held its annual convention in Chicago in 1916 and a visit to see the White Sox was planned as a special event. This photograph was created as a keepsake of the day. The presentation is very elaborately and expensively constructed, with custom-made identification matting. The caption on the matting reads, in gold lettering: "Delegates to the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association enjoying the National game at the White Sox Baseball Park, Chicago, Ill. Wednesday, August Ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen." Illustrations of the White Sox ballpark and Chicago's famous Montgomery Ward & Co. store appear in the lower left and right corners of the mat, each with identification below. This is a top-quality photograph, with outstanding production quality, and with strong contrast. The grandstands in the background are crystal clear, with fans scattered about. A couple of youngsters posed behind the players, holding large White Sox pennants, adds an additional nice touch. The photograph measures 25.75 x 8 inches (visible dimensions). The matting measures 29.25 x 12 inches. The photograph and the original mat are in Excellent condition. Framed to the total dimensions of 31.5 x 14.75 inches. The size/weight of this item requires that there will be an additional shipping charge for this lot.