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Photograph of William Taft batting a cricket ball.
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Collection Ritchie Pickow
Title Photograph of William Taft batting a cricket ball.
Description Photograph of William Taft, wearing a school cap and batting a cricket ball. William stands on the right wearing a white jumper, a white shirt, white trousers, leg pads and a cap with the school crest. He holds a bat. A ball is visible to the right of him, as though it bounced off the bat. Another boy stands further back to the left. He faces the camera and wears a white shirt, white trousers, leg pads and a large pair of gloves. A third figure stands in the right background. They wear white: a t-shirt and, either shorts, or a skirt. A wicket stands in the left/centre midground. A green house is visible in the right background. William is the son of William Taft, ambassador to Ireland at the time.
Date 01/01/1953
Date Issued 01/07/2022
Resource Type Still image
Archival Record Id p108211.jpg
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 60x60mm
Topic Cricket,Wicket,Cricket grounds,Cricket for children,Cricket bats,Cricket--Batting,Ambassadors,Taft,William Howard,1915-1991
Temporal Nineteen fifties,Twentieth century
Genre Black and white
Creator / Author Name George Pickow