Yes, the Bass image is new. If a photo is on baseball-reference, but the player is still on tnfoto's missing player list, the bb-ref photo is almost certainly incorrect (or at the very least has significant unanswered question).
I am happy to answer any questions about missing player research and alway happy to have some more diggers!
My experience has found the following resources very good for photo searching:
Searching old newspapers:
newspapers.com, genealogybank.com, newspapers.google.com, newspaperarchive.com and other newspaper sites.
Ancestry.com
I've found quite a few photos on here, digging through family trees and old passport photos
Contacting local genealogical and historical societies
These are particularly good to contact if the player in question was from a specific area and spent a lot of time there. This is how I got started on this fascinating search. I wanted to write a SABR bio for Bob McKinney, a 2 gamer for the 1901 Philadelphia Athletics, one of two (now three) McKinneys (my surname) in major league history. He was from McSherrystown, Pennsylvania and one of my research strategies involved contacting the Hanover Area Historical Society, and the archivist there was kind enough to send some photocopies from an area history, that included a nice team photo of a local club that featured Bob McKinney. Turns out there was no known photo and that was my first find.
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Originally Posted by tnfoto
I know that Chickalooza has gone through but there are always new images (like the Bass image I hadn't seen) and different search techniques/criteria. If the Missing Player List entry has a CAUTION: tag in one of the last two cells, there has probably been one or more submission for that player in the past, which further research has proven to be a false lead.
We're down to the really tough ones now, especially among managers, so when I find a "new" image, I'm always skeptical at first until I can verify.
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