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The Dick, Kerr Ladies

France v. England, November 1920

The women’s international as a magazine cover — the game’s first golden age, printed in Paris.

Work
sporting magazine cover, November 1920
Maker
the French sporting press
Date
1920
Era
The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source
Unknown photographer, 1920 · Wikimedia Commons
The magazines had already printed the truth.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

The women’s game was international before the ban ever fell. In 1920 the Dick, Kerr Ladies played a French representative side home and away — the away leg in Paris drew crowds the men’s game would have envied — and the French sporting press put the fixture on its covers. This November 1920 cover of the France–England match is the women’s international as news event: not a curiosity item, a fixture. Within thirteen months the English FA closed its grounds to these players. The magazines had already printed the truth: the game was real, the crowds were real, and both were growing.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

France v. England, November 1920, 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.

France v. England, November 1920 framed on the wall
France v. England, November 1920 framed on the wall
France v. England, November 1920 framed on the wall
France v. England, November 1920 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

  • A reproduction of sporting magazine cover, November 1920 — the French sporting press, 1920 — from the copy held by Unknown photographer, 1920 · 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 collection

The Dick, Kerr Ladies at Goodison Park — press photograph, 26 December 1920, press photograph, 1920

press photograph · 1920

The Dick, Kerr Ladies at Goodison Park

Boxing Day 1920: fifty-three thousand paid to watch the munition works’ team.

The gate receipts knew the truth first.
The Dick, Kerr Ladies (team photograph) — period photograph, period photograph, c. 1921

period photograph · c. 1921

The Dick, Kerr Ladies (team photograph)

The team in stripes and bobbed hair — factory workers who became the best-drawing side in Britain.

History keeps the team sheet.
The Pre-Match Kiss — press photograph, press photograph, c. 1921

press photograph · c. 1921

The Pre-Match Kiss

Dick, Kerr’s captain and her opposite number — the handshake the women’s game improved on.

The fixture ran on its own manners.