[Football player, with letter I on sweater, holding football, in front of Illinois Field] / Bristow Adams. – Antique Wall Art
![[Football player, with letter I on sweater, holding football, in front of Illinois Field] / Bristow Adams., Washington, D.C. : Andrew B. Graham, photo-litho., c1902. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f1/f1ac9aa00387-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Football player, with letter I on sweater, holding football, in front of Illinois Field] / Bristow Adams., a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Football player, with letter I on sweater, holding football, in front of Illinois Field] / Bristow Adams.
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A young football player stands before Illinois Field, holding a ball and wearing a sweater marked with a large letter I, the university's initial. The poster is credited to Bristow Adams, and its title identifies the athlete in the way college sports promotions of the period often did. It was produced by Andrew B. Graham in Washington, D.C., around 1902, using photo-lithography, a method that combined a photograph with color printing to make an image that could be reproduced in quantity. Its cataloged purpose was promotional, which makes it a useful record of how college football was marketed to the public in the early 1900s.
| Created / published | Washington, D.C. : Andrew B. Graham, photo-litho., c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Posters American 1900-1910.Prints Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Promotional goal: U.S. K3. 1902. Copyright by the Potomac Press, Washington, D.C. |
| Subjects | University of Illinois (System)--Sports--1900-1910. Football players--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,156 × 1,463 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217114 |
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