Walter Camp – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Walter Camp. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Walter Camp
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Walter Camp is the subject of this glass negative, a portrait of the man often called the "Father of American Football." Camp played for Yale and later coached there, and his rule changes in the 1880s and 1890s helped shape the modern game, including the line of scrimmage and the down-and-distance system. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, so the exact year of the sitting is uncertain, but the agency's work dates from roughly 1900 to 1920.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,315 × 4,865 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28947 |
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