The Victoria Eleven, Germany, c. 1910

A German champion side, as an American news agency filed it.

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

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 They are reproduced solely as part of the historical document, under the house’s historical-document doctrine — nothing modern is used or sold.

A Berlin eleven, filed in New York.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Victoria soccer team, Germany: that is the whole caption on this Bain News Service glass negative, now in the Library of Congress. The name points to Berlin’s Viktoria, one of the founding members of the German Football Association in 1900, which reached three national finals in a row from 1907 to 1909 and became German champions in 1908 and again in 1911. Bain’s agency, started in New York in 1898, copied and sent out pictures of events far from America. A German club photograph on an American news desk tells you how far the game had already travelled by 1910.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

The Victoria Eleven, Germany, 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.

The Victoria Eleven, Germany, 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.
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