Harvard practice – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Harvard practice. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Harvard practice
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The record names only a Harvard practice session, which suggests a team at training, a routine scene that wire services regularly sent to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The George Grantham Bain Collection, assembled from the Bain News Service's New York files, holds many such glass negatives from the years before about 1920, when quick photographs of athletes, students and city life were in steady demand. The title comes from the agency's notes and has not been independently verified, so the sport, the players and the exact date remain uncertain. The negative is worth a closer look for what it shows of everyday athletic training in that period.
| 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 | 5,741 × 4,154 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15386 |
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