[Staten Island ladies lawn tennis club] – Historic Print
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A window into the past: [Staten Island ladies lawn tennis club], preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Few sports images from the 1880s show women on the court as plainly as this halftone, which appeared in the 1887 volume of *Outing*, a New York magazine devoted to outdoor recreation. The lawn tennis it shows was still a fairly new pastime in America, imported from England about a decade earlier and spreading through resort towns and suburban clubs. Magazines of the period treated women's play as a novelty worth illustrating. The caption card lists the subjects as women's sports and tennis, but the record is unverified, so details about the players and grounds remain uncertain.
| Created / published | 1887 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Outing, v. 11, no. 2, 1887. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Women--Sports; Sports--Tennis. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,233 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150711 |
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