Fred McLeod - golf – 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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Fred McLeod - golf
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The caption names Fred McLeod, a Scottish-born professional who won the 1908 U.S. Open at the Myopia Hunt Club in Massachusetts, though the Bain News Service title is unverified and no date is recorded. McLeod was one of many Scottish-trained pros who brought the game to American clubs, and his win was a notable moment in the sport's early American years. The Bain News Service, which supplied newspapers with pictures from about 1900 into the 1920s, made glass negatives like this one, so the plate offers a useful glimpse of how golf was photographed for the press in that era.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 1,072 × 773 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15391 |
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