Chief Meyers, New York Giants catcher, by Paul Thompson, 1910

John Tortes "Chief" Meyers (July 29, 1880 - July 25, 1971) was a catcher in Major League Baseball for the New York Giants, Boston Braves and Brooklyn Robins from 1909 to 1917. He played on the early Giant teams under manager John McGraw and was the primary catcher for Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson. He was a surprisingly good hitter but was overlooked because he was a catcher. He played in four World Series, the 1911,1912 and 1913 series with the Giants as well as the the 1916 series with the Robins. Meyers, a Cahuilla Indian from California, was educated at Dartmouth College. Meyers was the primary catcher for Christy Mathewson.

From the Paul Thompson Collection at the Library of Congress
More pictures by Paul Thompson | More baseball items
[PD] This picture is in the public domain

Some rights reserved

Taken in: United States / New York / New York / Washington Heights (show map)

Taken on: December 14, 1910

Tags:

libraryofcongress

baseball

thompsoncollection

portrait

newyork

giants

catcher

mlb

1910

chief

john

tortes

meyers

nativeamerican

americanindian

cahuilla « less

Sets appears in: • Animate

Groups appears in: • Sepia • Historic and Old Photos more » • Major League Baseball • Vintage Portraiture • Baseball - Back in the day • Baseball Unlimited • Native American Portraits • La Belle Epoque ca.1890 - ca.1914 incl. ArtDeco and ArtNouveau • Athletes • People looking right at you « less

Camera: Sinar 54H (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sinar 54H
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
Show full info

Stats: 4,622 views

go back

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder