An English Football Team, 1912

An English eleven, sent round the world on a five-by-seven glass plate.

Work: glass-plate press photograph
Maker: Bain News Service
Date: 1912
Era: The Edwardian game · 1901–1918
Source: Library of Congress · via Wikimedia Commons

Worth a plate, worth sending on.

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

The caption on the glass negative says only English football team, 1912. It was made or copied by the Bain News Service, the agency George Grantham Bain started in New York in 1898, and Bain, known as the father of foreign photographic news, distributed pictures of events from all over the world. The plate is five by seven inches or smaller, and the Library of Congress now holds it. Who these players were is lost to the caption. What survives is how an English side looked to an American news desk in 1912: worth a plate, worth a print, and worth sending on.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

An English Football Team, 1912, printed large and framed — in the den, the club bar, the supporters’ bar. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

An English Football Team, 1912 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of glass-plate press photograph — Bain News Service, 1912 — from the copy held by Library of Congress · via Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work was published before 1931 and is public-domain verified.
Printed faithful to that source scan — restore honestly, disclose always. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the piece you receive is the image as it survives, halftone grain honored as history, not damage.
Printed to order on museum-grade cotton-rag stock with pigment inks — the pairing is rated 100+ years.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the period’s, not ours.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed editions ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our pieces cost more than a poster: a poster is a mass run on wood-pulp stock, colour-corrected to whatever flattered the press that day. This is one sheet, pulled for you, at a size where the maker’s hand is visible — the linework, the halftone grain, the lettering — on materials made to outlast their owner.

From the same hand