Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of the first tennis meet in 1884 of Southern California Tennis Club at Colonel Purcell's Las Tunas Rancho, July 12, 1884. Men, women and children pose underneath a tree. Some of them lay sprawled out across the lawn. Some of them are holding their tennis rackets or have it laying near them. Back row standing: Mrs. (Colonel) Winston, Mrs. Charles Winston, Kenneth Carter, Miss Edith Allen, Harold Allen, Miss Kate Peck, Stevens Halsted, Mrs. Bridgen, Miss Madaline Davidson, Mr. Barry, Miss Annie Allen, and J. N. Tiernan. Second row seated: Alice Winston, Isaac Cooper, Mrs. Gervaise Purcell, Charles M. Stephens, Miss Frances Shoemaker, Miss Inez Shorb, Mrs. J. F. Crank, Miss Susie Patton, Miss Anne Wilson, Mrs. William Allen, Mrs. Cooper. Third row seated on the ground: Geoffrey Purcell, Marguerite Halsted, Launcelot, Nora and Hugh Purcell (children) Abbott Kinney, W. H. Young, Miss Margaret Trew, Arthur Allen, Miss Ruth Wilson, Miss Nellie Cole, Charles Broadus. Other information on paper accompanying the photograph includes the addresses of the people, mostly ranches in Southern California.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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