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Junior High School basketball team, 1921 – Historic Photo Reproduction

Junior High School basketball team, 1921, 1921 — historic photograph
Junior High School basketball team, 1921, 1921. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company collection.

(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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Junior High School basketball team, 1921 comes to life in this historic photograph, 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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Junior High School basketball team, 1921

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Few sports pictures from the early 1920s survive on glass, which makes this 1921 view of a junior high school basketball team worth a closer look. The image was made on an 8 by 6 inch glass negative, a format that gave photographers of the period sharp detail but also left the emulsion open to flaking and streaking over time. The record notes exactly that kind of deterioration, along with the caveat that the title comes from unverified data supplied by the National Photo Company, the Washington firm whose large collection of news and commercial photographs now sits at the Library of Congress. The negative was given to the Library by Herbert A. French in 1947.

Created / published1921
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan7,194 × 5,521 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-259191

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