Football Game

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Burton, James
1897 - 1909
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm

8 x 10 glass plate negative taken by James Burton. View of men playing a game of football, probably a college game. View taken from behind the field goal post, spectators seated bleacher style in the background, large house in distance. The number "76" is glued on the emulsion side of this negative in the upper top edge. Written in ink on left corner edge of emulsion: "480 / 514 / 815 / 176" [all these numbers are crossed out]. Lower right corner in ink: "480". The first college football games were played in the U.S. in 1869, and the sport went professional in 1920.

B.1984.187.480

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer