Wm. Smith, golf match – 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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A window into the past: Wm. Smith, golf match, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Wm. Smith, golf match
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A golf match featuring a player recorded as "Wm. Smith," dated August 31, 1908, is the subject of this glass negative, though the title comes from Bain News Service data that has not been verified, so the player's identity should be treated as provisional. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied pictures to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century. Golf was growing in popularity across the United States around 1908, and club matches drew crowds and press attention, so the picture offers a glimpse of the sport's competitive life at that time.
| 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 | 946 × 712 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3334 |
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