Harvard-Princeton game – 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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Harvard-Princeton game comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Harvard-Princeton game
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The rivalry between Harvard and Princeton on the football field goes back to the nineteenth century, and this news photograph captures one of their contests. It survives as a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, built from the work of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied current-event pictures to newspapers. The record gives no date, so the particular game remains unconfirmed, though the pairing and the Boston label point to a college football meeting of that era. Glass plates were the standard medium for press photographers until film replaced them in newsrooms.
| 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 | 5,797 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15943 |
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