Harvard varsity – Vintage 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
A window into the past: Harvard varsity, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The record offers little beyond a title for this glass negative, which is labeled "Harvard varsity" and points to the top athletic squad at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, university. That title comes from caption cards and data supplied by the Bain News Service and has not been independently verified, and the sport or team is not specified. The Bain agency, founded in New York around 1899, sent photographers to news events and sold their pictures to newspapers, so its glass negatives offer a close view of how college teams were covered in the press in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,310 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10539 |
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