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Object ID: 1523 (Click here to view the image in a new window.)
Object Date (YYYYMMDD): 1896
Description: 1896 Boys of Summer '96 baseball team for New Ulm
Org/Loc: New Ulm
Org/Entity: Independent/General
Sport: Baseball
Team Nickname: None or Unknown
Gender: Male
Conf/League: None or Undetermined
Original Type: Printing Negative
Group ID: Early Teams Assemblage
Other Information: Digital image on object 1520. Hard copy file #7. Also see 1520 for screened photo. First New Ulm baseball team is reputed to be this group of the Boys of '96 according to a newspaper clipping which gave photo credits to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. This team is shown as it appeared in 1896 in an image produced from an offset printing negative by Jim Aufderheide. L-R, back row: Joseph Haas, pitcher; David Schuetz, Alfred Emmerich, Johnny Baasen. Second row: Richard Olsen, Emil Buenger, Peter Johnson. Front: Robert Williams and Louis Ambrosch. St. Paul Pioneer Press photo.