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[Jay Gould II, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding tennis racket] – Vintage Wall Art

[Jay Gould II, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding tennis racket], c1905. — historic photograph
[Jay Gould II, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding tennis racket], c1905.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 window into the past: [Jay Gould II, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding tennis racket], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Shown full length and holding a tennis racket, this young man is Jay Gould II, a grandson of the railroad financier Jay Gould and an accomplished amateur tennis player. The racket signals the sporting leisure that wealthy families of the period cultivated, and the upright, frontal stance was a conventional way to present a gentleman in a studio portrait. The photograph was taken around 1905 by G.W. Pach of Lakewood, New Jersey, a winter resort popular with well-to-do New Yorkers, so the image reflects both the Gould family's social world and the commercial portrait trade of the resort town. Gould died in 1935.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesCopyright by G.W. Pach, Lakewood, N.J.
SubjectsGould, Jay,--d. 1935.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan913 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172299

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