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[Outdoor tennis match] – Vintage Wall Art

[Outdoor tennis match], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Outdoor tennis match], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Little is recorded about the players or the court in this outdoor tennis match, since the title was devised by the cataloger rather than taken from a contemporary caption. Lawn tennis was a popular leisure pastime in the early twentieth century, played at clubs, resorts and private grounds across the United States. The glass dry plate negative, made sometime between 1900 and 1920, came from the Detroit Publishing Company and reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado. Its clothing and spectators offer clues to how leisure was dressed and shared in that period.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 758 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75230

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