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Archery tournament - Boston – Vintage Print

Archery tournament - Boston, n/a — historic photograph
Archery tournament - Boston, n/a. Historic photograph from the Boston 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 Boston archery tournament is the subject of this glass negative, one of the news photographs the Bain News Service produced and distributed to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified notes the agency wrote on the negatives or caption cards, so the exact event is uncertain. Archery had a real following in the United States in the early 1900s, with clubs and tournaments drawing spectators, and the outdoor setting makes such images a useful glimpse of organized leisure in the city during that period.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,735 × 4,204 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-15162

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