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Two 8" x 10" 1920s-1930s Glossy AP Wire Photos of Billy Sunday.
Lot 271. Two 8" x 10" 1920s-1930s Glossy AP Wire Photos of Billy Sunday. A hard-drinking baseball player for the Chicago White Stockings (N.L.) in the 1890s, Sunday found religion and a new career as an evangelist. At his death in 1935, the New York Times described him as “the greatest high-pressure and mass-conversion Christian evangelist that America has ever known.” The first photo, dated Aug. 11, 1928, shows Sunday with his wife. Clipped corner well outside the image area; otherwise vg with superb clarity and contrast. The second photo shows Sunday preaching in Boston in 1931. The AP caption on the back refers to him as an “athletic evangelist.” Vg, looks better. Photos of Sunday preaching are scarce.
Minimum Bid $150.
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