Girls Soccer Team, Blues and Whites, c. 1910

A girls’ side in two colours, a decade before Dick, Kerr’s filled the grounds.

Work: glass-plate press photograph
Maker: Bain News Service
Date: c. 1910
Era: The Edwardian game · 1901–1918
Source: Library of Congress · via Wikimedia Commons

Before the golden age, the team already existed.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Girls Soccer Team, Blues and Whites: the caption on a Bain News Service glass negative from about 1910, now in the Library of Congress. The agency did not record where the picture was made or who the players were, only the team and its colours. That is reason enough to keep it. Women’s football had its first golden age in the 1920s, when one match drew more than 50,000 spectators, and was then banned from the grounds of the FA’s member clubs from 1921 to 1970. This plate is from the decade before the golden age, and it shows a team that already existed.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

Girls Soccer Team, Blues and Whites, c. 1910, 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.

Girls Soccer Team, Blues and Whites, c. 1910 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of glass-plate press photograph — Bain News Service, c. 1910 — 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