France v. Yugoslavia, June 1926

A country seven years old plays an international at Colombes.

Work: glass plate negative, Agence Rol, 13 June 1926
Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1926
Ground: Stade de Colombes, Paris
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1926 · Wikimedia Commons

The century decided that nations come with an eleven.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

The 13th of June, 1926, at Colombes. Yugoslavia had been assembled out of the wreckage of two empires in 1918, and one of the first things it did with its new statehood was field a football team — because by the 1920s a national side had become part of the standard equipment of being a country, like a flag or a postal service. This Agence Rol plate is a photograph of that fact. Whatever else the new Europe was going to be, it was going to play on Sundays. The century decided that nations come with an eleven.

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The piece, in the room it was made for

France v. Yugoslavia, June 1926, 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. Yugoslavia, June 1926 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of glass plate negative, Agence Rol, 13 June 1926 — Agence Rol, 1926 — from the copy held by Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1926 · 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.
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