Golf match: Alex Finley, Scarsdale Golf Club – Antique 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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A window into the past: Golf match: Alex Finley, Scarsdale Golf Club, 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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Golf match: Alex Finley, Scarsdale Golf Club
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Alex Finley, named in the caption, is the player who sets this Scarsdale Golf Club match apart from other golf views in the collection. The negative is dated August 31, 1905, and comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Bain's photographers worked largely on glass plates, which recorded fine detail but were fragile, so these negatives preserve a clear record of sporting life at turn-of-the-century clubs. The title comes from agency caption information that has not been independently verified, so the particulars of the match itself remain open to question.
| Created / published | 8/31/05. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 952 × 726 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3330 |
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