Jack Elkins

Jack Elkins
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Title: Jack Elkins
Description:

Half-length portrait against neutral background of Brooklyn Dodgers farm team catcher Jack Elkins in uniform. Caption: "Jack Elkins . . . another Southern gen'man in the Dodger organization, this one being personally scouted, signed and sealed by Frank Rickey, brother of Branch . . . And since he received the personal okay of this redoubtable connoisseur of ivory, he is regarded as a fine prospect despite two rather indifferent seasons . . . "

Date: 1949
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Apr. 4, 1949.
Retouched ; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers
Subject: Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
Baseball players
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: DODG 0147