Will Rogers plays horse-shoes – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Will Rogers plays horse-shoes. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Will Rogers plays horse-shoes
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Will Rogers, the Oklahoma-born humorist and trick roper who became one of the most popular performers of the 1920s and 1930s, is pictured here at a game of horseshoes. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the glass-negative files of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied photographs of newsmakers to newspapers. Horseshoes was a common outdoor pastime, and the scene offers a relaxed glimpse of a public figure away from the stage. The record gives no date, so the caption is the agency's own label and has not been independently verified.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 879 × 1,219 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37169 |
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