Name/Title
Spectators at Wad Club Tennis TournamentEntry/Object ID
2020.202.019Description
A framed black and white image measuring 22 x 18". Created from negatives taken by Rollie McKenna in Stonington. Used in the exhibit A Village Love Affair in the Woolworth Library in November 2018.
This photograph depicts a row of ladies observing the tennis tournament in the summer sun, all dressed in their fingest, and legs all crossed the same direction. Almost all have been identified and their names are listed below in order from left to right:
Herb Simmons, Phyllis Bartholet, Henry Schreiber, Nancy Gibson, Joe Bradford, Allison Bradford, Charlie Fairbrother, Ann Farnswarth, Virginia Freye, Shelley White. Others in this row are unidentified. Under the shed: Roxana Simmons, Delight Caldwell, Harriet Hughes, Kitsie Cooke, Dorothy Palmer, Margaret Davol, Louise Wimpfheimer, Cricket Ogle and others.
The harbor is visible in the background.Collection
Rollie McKenna