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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Step back in time with Harvard-Princeton game, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Harvard-Princeton game
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A football matchup between Harvard and Princeton, two of the oldest rivals in American college sports, is the subject of this glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with pictures in the early twentieth century, made many negatives of sporting events, and the Harvard-Princeton series, first played in 1875, drew large crowds and national press attention. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption information, so the specific game shown is uncertain. Still, the glass plate reflects how news photographers of the period worked with bulky cameras and fragile negatives to capture crowds and action.
| 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 | 5,810 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-15942 |
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