A Marseille Eleven, 1924

The south of France at the Stade Élisabeth — a port city’s club, up in Paris.

Work: club photograph
Maker: Unknown photographer
Date: 1924
Ground: Stade Élisabeth, Paris
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Unknown photographer, 1924 · Wikimedia Commons

Period crests or marks appear inside this historic work. They are reproduced solely as part of the historical document, under the house’s historical-document doctrine — nothing modern is used or sold.

Football came ashore in the ports, and they never gave it back.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

A Marseille side photographed at the Stade Élisabeth in 1924. Port cities produced the most fervent football in every country that took the game up, for the plain reason that ports are where it arrived: sailors, dockers, and traders played it first and hardest, and the clubs that grew out of them inherited an intensity that inland cities took decades to match. This is that club in the year of the Paris Olympics, up in the capital, sitting for the standard photograph. Football came ashore in the ports, and the ports never gave it back.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

A Marseille Eleven, 1924, 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.

A Marseille Eleven, 1924 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of club photograph — Unknown photographer, 1924 — from the copy held by Unknown photographer, 1924 · 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.

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