The 19th of March, 1925, at the Stade Buffalo. Uruguay had won the Olympic tournament at Colombes nine months earlier playing football nobody in Europe had seen before — quick, close, technically outrageous — and they returned to France as the most instructive team on earth. This is what a paying Paris crowd turned out for: not a rivalry, a lesson. Five years later the same country would host and win the first World Cup, and the line between the two runs directly through afternoons like this one. The Agence Rol plate holds it at 8,500 pixels. Uruguay did not join European football. It corrected it.

Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1925
Medium of the original: Glass plate negative
Original held by: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1925 · Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1925 · Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01105

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	487	Excellent	Trimmed 9.8%
12 x 8 in	450	Excellent	Trimmed 7.6%
14 x 11 in	354	Excellent	Trimmed 8.2%
16 x 12 in	324	Excellent	Trimmed 3.8%
18 x 12 in	300	Excellent	Trimmed 7.6%
20 x 16 in	243	Excellent	Trimmed 9.8%
24 x 16 in	225	Excellent	Trimmed 7.6%
24 x 18 in	216	Excellent	Trimmed 3.8%
30 x 20 in	180	Good	Trimmed 7.6%
30 x 24 in	162	Good	Trimmed 9.8%
36 x 24 in	150	Good	Trimmed 7.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
40 x 30 in	129 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	108 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	90 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

5,400 x 3,896 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 33, lights 223 of 255; 0.3% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

0.21

Notes