Tom Vardon, teeing off on golf corse – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Tom Vardon, teeing off on golf corse, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Tom Vardon, teeing off on golf corse
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Tom Vardon is caught in the act of teeing off, a moment that sets this view apart from the many posed golf portraits in the Bain collection. He was the younger brother of Harry Vardon, the Jersey-born professional who won the British Open six times and helped make the golf swing a subject of wide public interest. The record dates the negative to June 1909 and credits the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers. The title comes from the agency's own caption information, so the identification is worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 6/25/09. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 946 × 715 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5254 |
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