Freshman crew race, Harvard shell, winner, with spectators (Harvard-Yale), New London, Conn. – 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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A window into the past: Freshman crew race, Harvard shell, winner, with spectators (Harvard-Yale), New London, Conn., 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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Freshman crew race, Harvard shell, winner, with spectators (Harvard-Yale), New London, Conn.
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Rowers in a Harvard shell pull toward the finish at New London, Connecticut, in this view of the freshman race, which the caption identifies as the winning boat in the Harvard-Yale regatta. That contest had been staged on the Thames River at New London since the late nineteenth century and drew large crowds to the riverbanks and the water. The record dates the photograph to June 25, 1908, and the spectators along the shore show how much the event meant to students and alumni. The glass negative came from the Bain News Service, a wire operation that supplied newspapers with fast, newsworthy pictures, so the image reflects early twentieth-century sports photography. The title comes from unverified caption data, so the boat and its result should be read with some care.
| 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 | 5,854 × 4,348 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3209 |
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