The New York Cup (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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A window into the past: The New York Cup (tennis), preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The New York Cup (tennis)
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This picture is catalogued under the title "The New York Cup," a tennis trophy or competition, though the record notes that the title comes from unverified information written on the negative or its caption card. The image is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, which supplied photographs of current events and sporting contests to newspapers in New York in the early twentieth century. Because the record gives no date, the exact year is uncertain, but the glass plate format and the Bain service's working methods place it in that period. Prizes like this one were a common subject for news photographers of the era, who documented athletes and trophies for readers following the sport.
| 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 | 6,606 × 8,932 px · prints to 22 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35366 |
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