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[Street-types of Chicago: young woman with tennis racket] – Vintage Wall Art

[Street-types of Chicago: young woman with tennis racket] — historic photograph
[Street-types of Chicago: young woman with tennis racket]. Historic photograph from the Chicago collection.

(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 young woman stands on a city street holding a tennis racket, a prop that sets this view apart from the other figures in the series. Lawn tennis spread quickly through American cities and suburbs in the late 1880s and early 1890s, and by 1891 it had become a fashionable pastime for women as well as men. The racket hints at leisure and modern habits, and it turns what might have been a plain street portrait into a glimpse of changing ideas about women's recreation in Chicago.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1891]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,126 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120123

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