Molla Bjurstedt (LOC)

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Molla Bjurstedt

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
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.18641

Call Number: LC-B2- 3411-8

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    icka and pennylrichardsca added this photo to their favorites.

  2. pennylrichardsca (7 months ago | reply)

    Norwegian tennis player Anna Margarethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory (1884-1959):
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molla_Mallory
    Apparently she's "the only woman other than Chris Evert to have won the U.S. Championships four consecutive times."

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    michaelgibson added this photo to their favorites. (7 months ago)

  4. artolog (7 months ago | reply)

    In New York in March, 1915 to play in the Women's National Indoor Tennis Tournament at the Seventh Regiment Armory (Park Avenue Armory), where this photo was probably taken. She won that year, the first of 8 such titles she would eventually win.
    query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A1 0FE3E5A15738...

    Something interesting about the brooch she is wearing in this photo, from her book "Tennis For Women" (1916):
    "I suppose that I am very silly about tournament
    play I am so superstitious. I make a wish when-
    ever I see two white horses. I had great luck on the
    night before the finals of the National Champion-
    ships at Philadelphia. I was talking with Mrs.
    Wightman, whom I was to play, when I saw a falling
    star. There is nothing so lucky as wishing on a fall-
    ing star. I made my wish, "I want to win the
    National." And I did.
    Then, I have a Japanese brooch which I always
    wear when I play; it is so ugly that I cannot wear it
    at any other time. I am afraid to play without
    it. "

    www.archive.org/stream/tennisforwomen00bjurri ch/tennisfor...

  5. Kristi (LOC P&P) (3 months ago | reply)

    pennylrichardsca and artolog:

    Thank you for the information! I especially enjoy the story of her lucky 'ugly' brooch - and seeing it on her in the photo. Very nice detail! We will add more to the record when updating.

  6. artolog (3 months ago | reply)

    Her opponent:
    Alberta Weber (LOC)

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