Golf match, crowd following Fred McLeod – Antique Wall Art
(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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This historic photograph of Golf match, crowd following Fred McLeod brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Golf match, crowd following Fred McLeod
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The crowd trailing Fred McLeod, the Scottish-born professional golfer, sets this glass negative apart from the other golf views on the board, since the gallery of spectators is as much the subject as the play. The record dates the exposure to August 31, 1908, a season when American golf was drawing large followings. The Bain News Service, the New York photo agency run by George Grantham Bain, made many such pictures of sporting crowds for newspaper use. Glass negatives like this one captured fine detail in faces and clothing, though the title comes from the agency's caption data, which the Library of Congress notes has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 8/31/08. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 948 × 715 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3336 |
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