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Thomas Nelson Page, in a photo from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. George Grantham Bain founded the Bain News Service in 1898; many of his works are now in the Library of Congress, with a special emphasis on photographic records of early American baseball.
Medium: Glass Plate Negative
Courtesy of The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, [LC-DIG-ggbain-21549]