The French women’s eleven at the Stade Pershing, 31 October 1920. France had a serious women’s football culture in the early twenties, organised largely through the women’s sports federation that ran its own championships and sent its own international sides; the English tour of that autumn was a fixture between two established programmes, not an exhibition. When England shut its game down the following year, France carried on for another decade. Half of what survives of the women’s first golden age survives because a Paris agency photographed it. The record exists because somebody in Paris thought it was worth a plate.

Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1920
Medium of the original: Glass plate negative
Original held by: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1920 · Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1920 · Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01124

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	491	Excellent	Trimmed 8.9%
12 x 8 in	450	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
14 x 11 in	357	Excellent	Trimmed 7.3%
16 x 12 in	327	Excellent	Trimmed 2.8%
18 x 12 in	300	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
20 x 16 in	245	Excellent	Trimmed 8.9%
24 x 16 in	225	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
24 x 18 in	218	Excellent	Trimmed 2.8%
30 x 20 in	180	Good	Trimmed 8.5%
30 x 24 in	163	Good	Trimmed 8.9%
36 x 24 in	150	Good	Trimmed 8.5%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
40 x 30 in	131 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	109 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 3,935 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 21, lights 192 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

0.8

Notes