Kumage tennis – Historic Reproduction
(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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Kumage tennis
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The record names Kumage, a district in Yamaguchi Prefecture at the western end of Honshu, alongside tennis, so the scene probably shows a match or players there. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers in the early twentieth century, made many pictures of Japan, but its titles were often written from memory or secondhand, so this one is unverified. Tennis took hold in Japanese schools and clubs during those decades, which makes a picture like this a glimpse of sport outside the big cities. No date is recorded, so the exact moment remains uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,860 × 4,266 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-23890 |
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