Betty Baker – Historic Print
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(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 Betty Baker 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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Betty Baker
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Betty Baker, a sixteen-year-old tennis player, is the sitter here, and the record places her as a first-round winner in the women's national indoor singles championship in New York on March 10, 1919. That was a notable result for a teenager in a sport still dominated by adults, and the glass negative captures her from the National Photo Company's studio work in Washington, D.C., during the years just after the First World War. Women's tennis was growing quickly then, with more girls and young women taking up the game in public courts and private clubs. The glass plate itself shows the streaks and blemishes that come with age in the original coatings, a reminder of how these early portraits were made.
| Created / published | [between 1918 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Sixteen-year old Betty Baker won a first round match of the women's national indoor tennis singles championship in New York 16 on March 10, 1919. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one. |
| Subjects | Baker, Newton Diehl,--1871-1937--Family. Girls. Tennis players. United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.) |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,175 × 5,187 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-229796 |
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