Penn 2d Varsity – Historic 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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This rare historic photograph captures Penn 2d Varsity in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Penn 2d Varsity
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Penn's second varsity, the reserve squad of the University of Pennsylvania, is the subject of this glass negative, though the record does not name the sport or the year. The title comes from caption cards that the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency active from about 1900 to 1932, attached to its plates, so it has not been independently verified. Second varsity teams gave younger and less-favored players a chance to compete against other schools' reserves, and the agency's large-format glass negatives remain a useful record of early twentieth-century college athletics.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,760 × 4,209 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17530 |
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