James playing golf – Antique 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
Step back in time with James playing golf, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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James playing golf
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This glass negative shows a man identified only as "James" swinging at a golf ball, and the title comes from caption information that the Bain News Service recorded on the negatives or caption cards, so the name has not been independently confirmed. George Grantham Bain's agency, based in New York, supplied press photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, when golf was growing rapidly as a leisure pursuit in the United States. The small 5 by 7 inch format was typical of the agency's working files, and the record gives no date, so the exact year remains uncertain. Viewers may find the plain, unposed stance of the golfer interesting as an everyday record of sport during that period.
| 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 eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 1,074 × 1,412 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37344 |
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