Bjurstedt – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Bjurstedt in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bjurstedt, the name on this glass negative, points to Molla Bjurstedt, the Norwegian-born tennis player who became one of the leading American women's players of the 1910s and early 1920s. She won the U.S. national women's singles title several times, and her style of steady, persistent baseline play drew wide press attention. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, made pictures like this one for quick publication. The record does not give a date, and the title comes from the agency's own caption data, which has not been independently verified, so the sitter's identity is a likely reading rather than a confirmed one.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,159 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26749 |
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