Ty Cobb photograph

Date1959 December

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of Ty Cobb as he grips a baseball in his room at Emory University Hospital. The image caption on the reverse (not shown) reads, "Ty Cobb, Immortal Georgia Peach of baseball, died July 17 in Atlanta's Emory University Hospital. He was 74. Cobb is show during a visit to the hospital for a check-up in December 1959."

Object numberBL-1968-01451-0065

Artist, Creator, or Manufacturer New York World-Telegram

Subject Cobb, Ty, 1886-1961

Attributes

black-and-white photographs

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Duplicate/Alternate CopyB-43-63|BL-4756-76

Dimensions6.75 x 8.5 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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