Amateur Football on the Boston Common. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. – Antique Print
(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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Step back in time with Amateur Football on the Boston Common. Location: Boston, Massachusetts., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Amateur Football on the Boston Common. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
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Amateur football on the Boston Common in October 1909 is the subject here, a scene of boys and men playing the game on the city's oldest public park. Lewis Hine, who worked for the National Child Labor Committee, is the attributed photographer, though the attribution rests on the print's provenance rather than a signature. Hine spent these years documenting child labor and urban life, and his camera often drifted toward open spaces where working families and young people spent their free time. The image is worth a look for its record of informal recreation in a crowded city, when organized play fields were still limited.
| Created / published | 1909 October. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 0913. |
| Subjects | Boys. Men. Parks. Play (Recreation). Football.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,083 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116588 |
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