Boxing team, G.U., '28 – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Boxing team, G.U., '28, [19]28. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/85/85ae3a81716c-L.webp)
(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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Boxing team, G.U., '28
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A 1928 team portrait of a boxing squad labeled "G.U.," an abbreviation the record does not expand, most likely refers to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The picture survives as a glass negative from the National Photo Company, a Washington studio that documented the city's schools, sports and public life in the 1910s and 1920s. Collegiate boxing was a popular campus sport at the time, and team photographs like this one recorded athletes and coaches for school publications and local newspapers. Streaks and blemishes across the glass come from the natural deterioration of the original coatings, not from the photographer's work.
| Created / published | [19]28. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,667 × 4,379 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-246310 |
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