6000 girls a Sokol Sports at Prague – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures 6000 girls a Sokol Sports at Prague in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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6000 girls a Sokol Sports at Prague
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Six thousand girls performing in unison is what sets this picture apart, a scale of group display that the Sokol movement made its trademark. Founded in 1862 in the Czech lands, Sokol, meaning "falcon," combined gymnastics with civic and national pride, and its mass public exercises, called slets, drew enormous crowds. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, distributed images like this one, though the caption's details, including the date, are unverified. The picture hints at how large the women's and girls' sections had become by the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,804 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12807 |
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