Althea Gibson

TITLE: [Althea Gibson, half-length portrait, holding tennis racquet] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo. CALL NUMBER: NYWTS - BIOG--Gibson, Althea--Tennis [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-114745 (b&w film copy neg.) No copyright restriction known. Staff photographer reproduction rights transferred to Library of Congress through Instrument of Gift.

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MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED, PUBLISHED: 1956. CREATOR: Palumbo, Fred, photographer. NOTES: NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c14745 hdl.loc.gov/cph.3c14745 CARD #: 95512217

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Althea Gibson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born in Silver, South Carolina, Gibson was the daughter of sharecroppers and was raised in Harlem, New York City. She and her family were on welfare. Gibson had trouble in school. She ran away from home quite frequently. She excelled in horsemanship but also competed in golf, basketball, and paddle tennis.

Her talent for and love of paddle tennis led her to win tournaments sponsored by the Police Athletic League and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Musician Buddy Walker noticed her playing table tennis and introduced her to tennis at the Harlem River Tennis Courts. Dr. Walter Johnson, a Lynchburg, Virginia, physician who was active in the black tennis community, helped with her training.

With the assistance of a sponsor, Gibson moved to Wilmington, North Carolina in 1946 for tennis training, and in 1947 at the age of 20, she won the first of 10 consecutive national championships run by the American Tennis Association, the then-governing body for black tournaments. Forced to play in what was basically a segregated sport, at age 23 Gibson was finally given the opportunity to participate in the 1950 U.S. Championships after Alice Marble had written an editorial for the July 1, 1950, edition of American Lawn Tennis Magazine.

Marble said, "Miss Gibson is over a very cunningly wrought barrel, and I can only hope to loosen a few of its staves with one lone opinion. If tennis is a game for ladies and gentlemen, it's also time we acted a little more like gentlepeople and less like sanctimonious hypocrites.... If Althea Gibson represents a challenge to the present crop of women players, it's only fair that they should meet that challenge on the courts." Marble said that if Gibson were not given the opportunity to compete, "then there is an uneradicable mark against a game to which I have devoted most of my life, and I would be bitterly ashamed

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Rudolph Valentino

RUDOLPH VALENTINO. Photograph. [Between 1915 and 1926.] Location: Biographical File, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-90327 Rights and Restrictions: The images are presented for educational and research purposes. Except where otherwise noted, the Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or donor restrictions on the use of the images. Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (1,562 K)

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On this day in 1926 (august 23d), heartthrob Rudoph Valentino dies at the age of 31, after surgery for a perforated ulcer. The actor's death provoked a hysterical outpouring of grief among women around the country.

Tens of thousands of fans swarmed the Campbell Funeral home two days later, and public viewing of the body was cut short to control the mob. Movie studios shut down on September 7 for Valentino's funeral, the first time studios closed their doors for the death of an actor. 1926 : Rudolph Valentino dies

Rudolph Valentino From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy, to a middle-class family. In the 1920s, Valentino was know as Latin sex symbol.

Valentino was born to Marie Berthe Gabrielle Barbin (1856 - 1919), who was French, and Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fidele Guglielmi (1853-1906), an Italian veterinarian. He had an older brother, Alberto (1892-1981), a younger sister, Maria, and an older sister Beatrice who died in infancy.

In 1913 Valentino left for the United States, following the advice of his friend Domenico Savino. He arrived in New York City on December 23, 1913. After exhausting a small family legacy, he endured a spell of poverty during which he supported himself with odd jobs such as bussing tables in restaurants, and gardening.

Eventually he found work as a taxi dancer and instructor, and later as an exhibition dancer. He gained attention for his rendition of the Argentine tango.

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Tiger Woods

040303-N-5319A-016 Arabian Gulf (March 3, 2004) – Crewmembers photograph professional golfer Tiger Woods as he walks through the hanger bay of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).

Tiger Woods accompanied by his fiancé Elin Nordegren, PGA player Mark O’Meara, and caddies Steve Williams and Greg Rita visited the Norfolk, Va. Based carrier in the Arabian Gulf before participating in the European PGA Tour’s Dubai Desert Classic on Thursday. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and Carrier Air Wing Seven (CVW-7) are deployed to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Brien Aho. (RELEASED) High Resolution Image

040303-N-5319A-009 Arabian Gulf (Mar. 3, 2004) – Sailors watch professional golfer Tiger Woods hit a few golf balls during a demonstration in the hanger bay of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). Tiger Woods accompanied by his fiancé Elin Nordegren, PGA player Mark O’Meara,

and caddies Steve Williams and Greg Rita visited the Norfolk, Va. Based carrier in the Arabian Gulf before participating in the European PGA Tour’s Dubai Desert Classic on Thursday. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and Carrier Air Wing Seven (CVW-7) are deployed to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Brien Aho. (RELEASED) High Resolution Image

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Jessica Biel

050719-N-0295M-002 Washington, D.C. (July 19, 2005) – Actress Jessica Biel poses for photographers on the red carpet prior to entering the Loews Uptown Theater for the Washington, D.C. premier of the major motion picture, “Stealth”. Starring Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel and Josh Lucas, “Stealth” is an action thriller about a squadron of elite Naval Aviators who embark on a mission to neutralize an out-of-control prototype drone fighter plane equipped with artificial intelligence and the ability to cause a nuclear war.

The Navy offered over 200 general admission seating for Sailors and Marines to attend the Washington, D.C. premier. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain (RELEASED) High Resolution Image

050717-N-9698C-020 San Diego (July 17, 2005) – Actor Jamie Foxx, Actress Jessica Biel and Actor Josh Lucas pose near an F/A-18F Super Hornet after arriving on board Naval Air Station North Island

prior to the Hollywood premiere screening of the major motion picture movie “Stealth”. The U.S. Navy supported the production and portions of the movie were shot aboard several Navy vessels, including the nuclear powered aircraft carriers USS Nimitz (CVN 68), USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman John Ciccarelli (RELEASED) High Resolution Image

040618-N-6817C-036 Pacific Ocean (June 18, 2004) – Actress Jessica Biel works on a scene for the upcoming Columbia Tri-Star movie "Stealth" during filming on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).

Lincoln is conducting local operations in preparation for an upcoming scheduled deployment after 10 months of dry docked Planned Incremental Availability (PIA). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Tyler J. Clements (RELEASED) High Resolution Image

040618-N-6817C-078 Pacific Ocean (Jun. 18, 2004) - Actress Jessica Biel receives instructions on the ship’s helm from Seaman Redding after Ms. Biel completed filming of the Hollywood motion picture "Stealth," aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).

During the last 10 months, Lincoln has been in dry docked Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) and is now conducting training exercises in preparation for their next deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Tyler J. Clements (RELEASED) High Resolution Image

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• Privacy rights protect living people from unauthorized use of their image that is intrusive or embarrassing. As John and Barbara Schultz point out that: “Photographs of private persons, who are not celebrities or public figures, can be published without their consent only in an editorial context. Even editorial use is perilous, however, if any individual who is depicted is held libeled, held up to ridicule, or misrepresented." Picture Research: A Practical Guide, by John Schultz and Barbara Schultz (N.Y.: Van Nostrand, 1991), p. 226. [call number: TR147.S38 1991 P&P]
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Famous People Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

TITLE: Twain, Mark, CALL NUMBER: No call number recorded on caption card [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-5513 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED, PUBLISHED: c1907.

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Mark Twain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 — April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists, and European royalty.

Clemens enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".

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