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An early court in Hingham, Massachusetts, 1930

An early court in Hingham, Massachusetts, 1930

Herbert Pease, Wallace Chandler, Sumner Kilmarx, and Clifford Couch in the semifinals of the 1935 Men’s Doubles Nationals

Herbert Pease, Wallace Chandler, Sumner Kilmarx, and Clifford ...

"Let the Gallery have comfortable benches from which they can look down on the court".

"Let the Gallery have comfortable benches from which they can ...

Charlie O'Hearn Takes One Off the Backstop

Charlie O'Hearn Takes One Off the Backstop

1959 Women's Nationals - Ruth Walker (left) and Barbara Koegel battle in the final. Ruth Walker was Blanchard's daughter who was married to Fred Walker (HOF 1966)

1959 Women's Nationals - Ruth Walker (left) and Barbara Koegel...

FMTC Men's Tennis Doubles Championships 1960. Zan Carver and Fred Walker vs. Pardoe and Hebard

FMTC Men's Tennis Doubles Championships 1960. Zan Carver and F...

New kitchen under construction

New kitchen under construction

Standing room only for the 1976 Nationals. For the first time FMTC had a refreshment tent with catered food service

Standing room only for the 1976 Nationals. For the first time ...

Tribuno World Championships - Gloria Dillenbeck Dodd with ABC News Team Doug Johnson and Roger Grimsby at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, NY.

Tribuno World Championships - Gloria Dillenbeck Dodd with ABC ...

Advertisement for the Marcraft FiberMarc paddle

Advertisement for the Marcraft FiberMarc paddle

John E. Packard, III

John E. Packard, III

Killy Kilmarx (center), the winner of the first Men's Championship with Clifford Couch in 1935, presents the Championship bowl to the fifty-second championship pair of Hank Irvine (left) and Greg Moore. Dick Warren (right), FMTC president, and Paul Molloy, tournament chairman.

Killy Kilmarx (center), the winner of the first Men's Champion...

Women’s tea at Fox Meadow Tennis Club, Scarsdale, NY in the 1950s, including, in front row, Buffy Briggs (holding tea), Elise Clairborne, Pam McCrae, and Evie Carlisle

Women’s tea at Fox Meadow Tennis Club, Scarsdale, NY in the...

Irvine and Fitz Gibbon during a Passport Tournament

Irvine and Fitz Gibbon during a Passport Tournament

An early ad in American Lawn Tennis magazine

An early ad in American Lawn Tennis magazine