Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: Brown scoreboard edition

Wrigley Field’s iconic center-field scoreboard is painted a dark green.

But it hasn’t always been that way. From the time of its construction over the then-new bleachers in 1937 through 1941, it was painted a dark brown.

The photo above is the first one I’ve ever seen in color of the board in its original brown. And based on this tweet, where I found the photo, this isn’t a colorized black-and-white photo, it’s a Kodachrome, one of the earliest color photos of Wrigley Field:

That was a very early use of Kodachrome, as it was first sold to the public for general use in 1936. It’s probably the best color photo of the scoreboard in brown that I’ve ever seen. (Also, how has this photo eluded me…