Tex Rickard – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Tex Rickard, 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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Tex Rickard
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Tex Rickard, the Texas-born promoter who built Madison Square Garden and staged some of the biggest prize fights of the 1920s, is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection. Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, produced and distributed pictures like this to newspapers across the country, and its files are a major record of sports, theater and public life in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, so the exact occasion is unknown, but portraits of Rickard from this period typically tie to his boxing promotions and the crowds and headlines they drew. The plate is worth a look as a document of how the agency framed its celebrity subjects for the press.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,386 × 7,506 px · prints to 18 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33580 |
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