Wm. Smith, Mexico, 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.)
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Step back in time with Wm. Smith, Mexico, playing golf, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Wm. Smith, Mexico, playing golf
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The caption names the golfer as Wm. Smith and places the scene in Mexico, though the title is noted as unverified, so both details should be read with some caution. The glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs made by a New York agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Golf was a fashionable pastime among affluent Americans and Europeans at the time, and a picture of the sport being played abroad offers a glimpse of the leisure life of foreign residents and visitors. The record does not give a date.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 951 × 721 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3309 |
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