Group of women tennis players

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Large - Subjects - Games and Sports

GUSN

GUSN-194793

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Description

A group of young women sit on the stairs leading to the front entranceway of a building that could be a school. Many of them hold tennis racquets. A plaque set into the pediment above the entrance porch is carved with the year 1883.

Details

Descriptive Terms

sports
pavilions (building divisions)
pediments
doorways
stoops (uncovered spaces)
Queen Anne Style
women (female humans)
front (positional attribute)
group portraits
rackets (sports equipment)
court games
tennis
standing
girls
sitting
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000070
AccessID 95
Other identifier HNEDID-000070

Physical Descrption

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.02.3000.0100.001

Date Notes

1880-1900

Places

Brockton (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Burrell, David Thomas, 1839-1918 (photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Subjects

physical fitness
sports & leisure
women tennis players
young women

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Large - Subjects - Games and Sports

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