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Chicago girls at Sokol Sports, Prague, Austria
[1912]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the caption
card.
Photo shows young women demonstrating tennis technique, probably
during the 6th Sokol Slet (gymnastic festival) held in 1912 in Prague
(then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now located in the Czech
Republic). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11568
Call Number: LC-B2- 2521-13
phodto, yXeLLe ~@rtBrut~, gohomekiki, and 49 other people added this photo to their favorites.
fine_line 60 months ago | reply
Prague is not in Austria!!!!
it is CZECH - please update your title and description.
Perhaps the Czech republic was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the time, but Austria is something else altogether.
The Library of Congress 60 months ago | reply
Thanks! Prague was indeed part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time that the photo was taken. We'll change the information in the source data and reload the description.
The Library of Congress 60 months ago | reply
gov calif: We will update the description to reflect both the original caption and add that the location was the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
A30yoyo 60 months ago | reply
Maybe complete the story by mentioning that it was the capital of Czechoslovakia from about 1919 till the recent breakup into Czech Republic and Slovakia
whyaduck 60 months ago | reply
To be precise, at the time this photo was taken Prague was designated on maps as being in Bohemia, the Austro-Hungarian province of which it was the principal city. The most accurate description would be Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.
BobMeade 59 months ago | reply
Well, it would be interesting to see what is on the caption card, if any. The LOC captions are meant to reflect what is on the negative and the caption card.
The negative has, 'CHICAGO GIRLS AT SOKOL SPORTS PRAGUE 2521 - 13 "
So, one wonders where the word "Austria" in the caption came from in the first place and if it is not on the caption card it may have been incorrectly added hence may not reflect the Bain Collection terminology of the day.
Maybe one of the hard working people at the LOC will have to dig it out of the store to satisfy my curiosity.
whyaduck 59 months ago | reply
Two other photos in the Prague Sokol series, here and here, both have negative captions reading "Austria," so at least part of the time it was a decision by somebody at Bain to put Prague in Austria rather than Bohemia.
BobMeade 59 months ago | reply
I see, whyaduck.
The Library of Congress 59 months ago | reply
Thanks to all for the continuing observations about this photograph and those related to it.
lifeasdaddy:
We can report that the original caption card for this negative (LC-B2-2521-13) reads: 'Chicago Girls at Sokol Sports, Prague, Austria'. Additions to the descriptive data to further reflect the location are underway.
BobMeade 59 months ago | reply
Thank you, The Library of Congress. Nice of you to take the time.
Austria can be taken then as one of the contemporary attributions of the location of Prague.
timtak 56 months ago | reply
Flickr says that users are invited to put tags of CC work but I see there are already a lot of tags already.
Artamnesia 55 months ago | reply
My grandmother and relatives who came to this country about 1900, always said they were Austrian but claimed their parents spoke 'Bohemian'.
lee.ponzu 55 months ago | reply
Well, most people know what "Prague" is, so just leave out Austria altogether. i don't see it on the caption written on the picture, anyway. Sokol is very much a Bohemian institution, too, not Germanic.
By the way, what would be the LOC policy on place names. The people who live there call in Praha (PRA-ha), not the German name for it.
maurice flower 52 months ago | reply
Interesting.
doctorponton 39 months ago | reply
I've included this photo in a blog post about exercise. -Thanks
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Jukka1 38 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Retro Athlete, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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