Travers Isl. - Nat'l Championship guns – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Travers Isl. - Nat'l Championship guns. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Travers Isl. - Nat'l Championship guns
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This glass negative shows the shotguns used at the national championship held at Travers Island, the grounds of the New York Athletic Club in Pelham, New York, named for club member William R. Travers. The title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact event and year are uncertain. Still, the subject fits the shooting competitions the club hosted in the early twentieth century. Bain News Service, a photo agency, made many such pictures for newspapers, so the image captures how sporting news was documented for the public at that time.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,716 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11583 |
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