Harvard 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Harvard 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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Harvard Varsity
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The record gives the title "Harvard Varsity," which points to a student athletic team or squad from Harvard University in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston. The title comes from captions the Bain News Service attached to its negatives, and the library has not verified it, so the sport, players, and date remain unknown. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century, and its glass negatives document everyday life, sports, and public events of that era. Glass plates like this one were a common format of the period and are valued for their sharp detail.
| 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 | 5,791 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17501 |
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