A Saint-Ouen Eleven, 1920

The working-class club of the Paris north, in the first season after the war.

Work: club photograph
Maker: Unknown photographer
Date: 1920
Ground: Saint-Ouen, Paris
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Unknown photographer, 1920 · 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 They are reproduced solely as part of the historical document, under the house’s historical-document doctrine — nothing modern is used or sold.

French football’s heartland was the ring of workshops.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Saint-Ouen, on the northern edge of Paris, 1920. The club there was founded by a Frenchman who had learned the game in England, and it belonged to its neighbourhood in the way the great industrial clubs of northern England belonged to theirs — a factory-district side, in a factory district, playing for people who worked six days and watched on the seventh. This is the first full season after the war, and half the faces in the photograph had been in it. French football’s heartland was never the boulevards. It was the ring of workshops around them.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

A Saint-Ouen Eleven, 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.

A Saint-Ouen Eleven, 1920 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of club photograph — Unknown photographer, 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.
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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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