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May Vernacular Photo History Auction

Wed, May 6, 2026 11:00AM EDT
  2026-05-06 11:00:00 2026-05-06 11:00:00 America/New_York Michael Lehr Michael Lehr : May Vernacular Photo History Auction https://auction.michaellehrantiques.com/auctions/michael-lehr-antiques/may-vernacular-photo-history-auction-22757
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Lot 110

Identified NAD Nebraska Baseball Team with African Americans

Estimate: $50 - $1,000
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Vintage 8 x 10 silver gelatin photograph showing an identified Naval Ammunition Depot baseball team posed outdoors at Hastings, Nebraska. Team members wear matching uniforms with “NAD” insignia, and one central player wears a shirt lettered “Naval Ammunition Depot.” The group includes a racially mixed lineup, making the image especially notable as a mid-century military-base sports photograph. The reverse is inscribed identifying the image as an “Identified Naval Ammunition Depot (NAD) Intra-base team” at Hastings, Nebraska, and also records player names and positions. Several identifications are clearly legible, including players listed as King C.F., Lilly P., Arnold T., Kightlinger 1.B., Brown C., Flores 2b, and Lyman SS, with additional names in the kneeling row only partly legible. A strong, documentary baseball image tied to the massive Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot, the Navy’s largest inland World War II munitions installation.

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