Helen Wills – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Helen Wills. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Helen Wills
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Helen Wills, the tennis champion, is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of work built by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers from the early 1900s into the 1920s. Wills rose to fame in the 1920s, winning the women's singles title at Wimbledon and the U.S. National Championships several times, and she became one of the most photographed athletes of her day. The Bain negatives were made on glass plates, so their sharpness and tonal detail reflect the technology of the period. The caption information for this plate comes from unverified notes, so its exact date and setting are uncertain.
| 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 | 3,219 × 4,747 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40104 |
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