Harvard-Yale crew race, boat landing, New London, Conn. – Vintage 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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Harvard-Yale crew race, boat landing, New London, Conn. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Harvard-Yale crew race, boat landing, New London, Conn.
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Rather than the race itself, this glass negative shows the boat landing at New London, Connecticut, where the Harvard and Yale crews came ashore on the Thames River. The two universities had met on that water in an annual regatta since 1878, and New London became the regular setting for the contest, drawing crowds of students, alumni and reporters. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news photography service that supplied images to newspapers in the early 1900s. The title comes from caption data that the record describes as unverified, so details of the scene are best read with that in mind.
| Created / published | 6/25/08. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,885 × 4,297 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3213 |
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