Summer/August 2006 Catalog > Photo Collection > All Sports
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Lot 281: The Helen Jacobs Collection (50)
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One of the finest women’s tennis players of the 1920s and 1930s known for her on court rivalry with Helen Wills. Spectacular collection of 50 images that have been cherry picked as the best of the best. Includes some amazing individual portraits and great ones with other celebrities such as Don Budge (1937), Bill Tilden (1945), Dorothy Round, and Elizabeth Ryan. From such top matches as 1931/33/34/35/38/39 Wimbledon, 1932(2)/33(2)/34/36(2) Forest Hills, 1929 & 1931 Seabright Cup. Most are pure tennis and from the 1920s and 1930s. Many with original paper caption and wire service stamps on versos. Overall EX+ and 7x9”.
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