An impressive tennis photograph collection 1920s to 1950s, featuring private and unpublished candid photographic images of famous lawn tennis players
£400 - £600
An impressive tennis photograph collection 1920s to 1950s, featuring private and unpublished candid photographic images of famous lawn tennis players at Wimbledon, Stade Roland Garros, The British Hard Court Championships, Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Hough Green etc., featuring over 100 images, subjects include Suzanne Lenglen (8), Elizabeth Ryan, Mrs. Shepherd-Barron, Joan Fry, Mlle. Vlasto, Jean Borotra (2), Wallis Myers, Darsonval, Mdme. Bordes, Miss Jessup, Miss Browne, Helen Wills, Dorothy Anderson, Baroness Reznicek, Evelyn Colyer, Miss Tuckey, Miss Chamberlain, Henri Lacoste, Mlle Bourgeois, Mlle. Nicolopoulo, Holmes, Marshall, Saunders, Gordon, Lewis, Goldsworth, Clarke, Charleton, Southam, Pratt, Aplin, Strawson, Collins, Bunny Austin, Henri Cochet, Hennessey & Coen, Bill Tilden, Lester Stoefen, Valerie Pitt, Rosewall, Mottram, Little Mo Connolly, and Louise Brough; the lot includes reproductions of contemporary news reports which support some of the images