James playing golf – Historic Print
(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.)
Description
This historic photograph of James playing golf brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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James playing golf
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The only name attached to this picture is James, and the title comes from a Bain News Service caption that has not been independently verified, so his full identity and the course remain unknown. The image survives as a glass negative in the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of press photographs that the New York agency produced mainly in the early twentieth century for newspapers and magazines. Golf was gaining popularity in the United States during those decades, and pictures like this one show how the sport was presented to a public eager to see it. Its small negative format and lack of a firm date make it a modest but useful record of that period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 1,074 × 1,420 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37345 |
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