File:Babe Ruth eating a turkey leg surrounded by children while sitting on stairs inside the New Washington Hotel, Seattle, November (MOHAI 264).jpg
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[edit]English: Babe Ruth eating a turkey leg surrounded by children while sitting on stairs inside the New Washington Hotel, Seattle, November 1926 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Photographer |
Staff Photographer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Title |
English: Babe Ruth eating a turkey leg surrounded by children while sitting on stairs inside the New Washington Hotel, Seattle, November 1926 |
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Description |
English: George Herman "Babe" Ruth, well-known for being "the captain of the home run industry" and for his swaggering style, hit his 60th home run of the season on September 30, 1927, for the New York Yankees, setting the record for home runs in a season. Much of the Seattle press gave little notice to this event, although The Seattle Times noted that "the probabilities are great that sixty home runs will stand for many years as a busy season's work." Upon Ruth's retirement in 1935, no one had hit half as many home runs as his record of 714 -- a record that stood for almost four decades. In this ca. 1927 photograph, Ruth is surrounded by young children at the bottom of a staircase and being fed a turkey leg by a young boy, John A. Holmes. The girl on the right holding a plate is Jeanette Plochowitz. The fair-haired boy standing on the stairs just above the boy with the turkey leg is Harold Warner. His father was the manager of the New Washington Hotel, the setting of this photograph. Handwritten on image: Babe Ruth. Caption information sources: HistoryLink.org, TheBaseballPage.com; Mrs. Harold Warner in a telephone conversation, December 10, 2003; and Jill Murphy via email, identifying her father, John Holmes, November 2015. Photograph appeared on the front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on November 26, 1926.
The New Washington Hotel is now the Josephinum. |
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Depicted place |
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
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Date | Taken on 1 November 1926 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: 1 glass negative: b&w |
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Dimensions |
height: 4 in (10.1 cm); width: 5 in (12.7 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,4U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,5U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Museum of History and Industry |
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Credit Line InfoField | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
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