Crowd Harvard - Princeton game – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Crowd Harvard - Princeton game in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Crowd Harvard - Princeton game
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Rather than focusing on the players, this picture centers on the spectators, a dense crowd gathered for a football game between Harvard and Princeton. The two universities have met on the field since 1876, and their games drew large audiences who treated the contest as a major social occasion. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied news pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date and marks its title as unverified, so the exact game is uncertain, but the scene shows how college football crowds gathered in that era.
| 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 | 5,798 × 4,253 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16107 |
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