Columbia Varsity 8 – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Columbia Varsity 8. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Columbia Varsity 8
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The Columbia Varsity Eight is the subject here, a rowing crew from Columbia University photographed on a glass negative that came out of the Bain News Service files. Bain's agency sold news pictures of athletes, parades and public events to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and rowing crews, with their long shells and matched oarsmen, were popular subjects for that kind of coverage. The record gives no exact date, so the picture is best read as a snapshot of collegiate rowing during the Bain years, when eight-oared racing drew large crowds and considerable press attention.
| 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 | 5,716 × 4,154 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14400 |
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