Basketball fever! (LOC)

What do you think of their form? And what do you suppose affected it more—their outfits or the presence of the camera?

 

This photo was recently featured in a Picture This blog post: "Women Hoopsters"

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Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer

 

[Female students playing basketball in a gymnasium, Western High School, Washington, D.C.]

 

[1899?]

 

1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 7 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (photo), 9 x 11 5/16 in. (mount)

 

Notes:

Title devised by Library staff.

Inscribed in ink on bottom center of photo: 35.

In album: "Western High School, nos. 1-40"

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09676

 

Call Number: LOT 2749, no. 035

 

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