A U.S. Soccer Team at Bonn, c. 1915

Americans on a German pitch, filed by the agency that sent the world’s pictures home.

Work: glass-plate press photograph
Maker: Bain News Service
Date: c. 1915
Era: The Edwardian game · 1901–1918
Source: Library of Congress · via Wikimedia Commons

An American eleven, filed from Bonn.

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

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The story

U.S. soccer team at Bonn, says the caption on a Bain News Service glass negative. The Library of Congress record dates it to 1915 and records nothing else, which leaves the picture to speak for itself: an American side on a German ground, photographed and filed as news. George Grantham Bain had started his agency in New York in 1898, and it became known for bringing foreign pictures to American papers. The house keeps the caption exactly as the plate gives it and claims nothing more than it says. It is a small, honest record of football carried abroad.

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A U.S. Soccer Team at Bonn, c. 1915, 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.

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About this reproduction

A reproduction of glass-plate press photograph — Bain News Service, c. 1915 — from the copy held by Library of Congress · via Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work was published before 1931 and is public-domain verified.
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