New York - The great football match between Yale and Princeton, played on Thanksgiving Day on Manhattan Field – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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New York - The great football match between Yale and Princeton, played on Thanksgiving Day on Manhattan Field comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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New York - The great football match between Yale and Princeton, played on Thanksgiving Day on Manhattan Field
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The lead detail here is the setting: a Thanksgiving Day football game between Yale and Princeton played on Manhattan Field in New York in 1891. By then the two colleges' Thanksgiving meeting had become one of the most closely followed contests in American sports, drawing large crowds and heavy newspaper coverage. This print is a reproduction from *Once a Week*, an illustrated magazine, and it shows how the rivalry was presented to readers far beyond the stands. Its record comes from an older caption card, so some details should be checked against other sources.
| Created / published | 1891 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Repro. in: Once a Week, Dec. 15, 1891. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,043 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-107676 |
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