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Portraits, the Grand Match, and the Clubhouse Wall · The Grand Match
Low, Smith, Ray and Vardon, 1913
Bain News Service, photograph, 1913 · press photograph
What it is
A Bain News Service glass negative from 1913: a green ringed by spectators, with Low, Smith, Ray and Vardon named on the plate.
Why it matters
Vardon and Ted Ray crossed the Atlantic in 1913 to play the Americans on their own ground, and this is the crowd that came to see it.
What to notice
The names are written in the emulsion above each player, which is how a news agency kept its files straight.
Everyone in the gallery thought they knew how it would end.
Provenance
- Maker
- Bain News Service, photograph, 1913
- Era
- The Haskell — the Rubber Core (1898–1930)
- Chapter
- The Golden Age
- Medium
- press photograph
- Made
- 1913
- Figure
- Harry Vardon, Ted Ray, George Low, Alex Smith
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs (LCCN 2014694474) · LCCN 2014694474
Publicity
Clear — a long-deceased figure with no post-mortem right of publicity in play. Sold as history, freely and openly.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
