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Gene Sarazen wielding a niblick against old fashioned 'feather' golf balls

 

Gene Sarazen, famous golfer, visitor to the World's Fair, displays interest in ancient driver, the niblick.

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Title:
Gene Sarazen wielding a niblick against old fashioned 'feather' golf balls
Date of Original:
1933-1934
Identifier:
COP_17_0004_00154_001.tif
Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3b56d490
Type:
Image
Caption:
Gene Sarazen, famous golfer, was a visitor to the World's Fair today (Thursday, Sept. 6) and manifested keen interest in the exhibit of ancient drivers, niblicks, and midirons at the Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company in the Food and Agriculture Building. Here you see the demon linksman wielding a niblick against one of the old fashioned 'feather' golf balls used by players a hundred years ago, as Dorothy LaFold looks on.


Rights:
In copyright
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic
Golf
Golfers
Golf clubs (Sporting goods)
Subject--Name
Sarazen, Gene
Wilson Sporting Goods Company

Photographer:
Kaufmann & Fabry Co.

Form:
Photographs
Color:
Black and white
Extent:
9.5 x 7.5 in.

Exhibit:
Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Co.
Building Name:
Food and Agriculture Building

Collection Information


Collection:
Century of Progress records
Show more details:
Series:
Series 17: Iconographics
Box:
4
Folder:
154
Repository:
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Manuscript Collections
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library

Acknowledgements


Acknowledgements
Funded by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant awarded by the Illinois State Library under Jesse White
Secretary of State.

Geographic Information

Near South Side (Chicago, Ill.)