Yale Freshman 8 – Vintage Wall Art
(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
A window into the past: Yale Freshman 8, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Yale Freshman 8
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Yale's freshman rowing eight is the subject here, a crew of students posed as a unit in the way Bain News Service staff often shot athletic teams. The glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, which holds the work of a New York news photography business that operated from the early 1900s into the 1920s and supplied images to newspapers. The record gives no firm date, and the title itself is marked as unverified, so the exact year and the names of the oarsmen remain uncertain. Still, the picture reflects a sporting tradition that drew large crowds and press attention, when intercollegiate rowing on the Hudson and New England waters was a major spectator event.
| 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 | 5,722 × 4,203 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14590 |
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