Capt. Watson Boudinot, 1922

A team captain, in a single portrait from an American news agency’s plates.

Work: glass-plate press photograph
Maker: Bain News Service
Date: 1922
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Library of Congress · via Wikimedia Commons
Figure: Watson Boudinot — publicity clear

A captain, as the caption names him.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Capt. Watson Boudinot, soccer: that is the full caption on this Bain News Service glass negative of 1922, held by the Library of Congress. The agency, which George Grantham Bain had started in New York in 1898, kept thousands of plates like it, each with a few words to say who stood in front of the camera. The record tells us his name, his captaincy and his sport, and the house tells you nothing beyond it. What remains is a portrait of an American footballer in the early 1920s, standing alone for the camera as a captain.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

Capt. Watson Boudinot, 1922, 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.

Capt. Watson Boudinot, 1922 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of glass-plate press photograph — Bain News Service, 1922 — 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.

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