Crown Prince Seden and English football players – Antique 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.)
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Crown Prince Seden and English football players comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Crown Prince Seden and English football players
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A royal figure identified in the title as Crown Prince Seden poses with a group of English football players, though the spelling of the country and the occasion itself remain unconfirmed. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with news pictures in the early twentieth century, based its titles on caption cards that were not always checked. Meetings between royalty and sports teams were a common way for newspapers to present a country's leaders as engaged with popular pastimes. The formal posing and the dark suits and caps of the players are worth noticing as clues to the period's public manners.
| 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 | 5,803 × 4,253 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12801 |
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