Measuring Shamrock
Bain News Service, 1915
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 15% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe measurers at work on Shamrock IV, 1915 — the Cup's arithmetic applied with tape and plumb line. Rating rules decided these matches as surely as helmsmen; the Bain agency photographed the bureaucracy too.
- Maker
- Bain News Service
- Date
- 1915
- Medium of the original
- Silver gelatin press photograph
- Original held by
- Library of Congress, Bain Collection
- Credit
- Library of Congress, Bain Collection
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-02031
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.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | 85 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | 58 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | 38 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 34 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 23 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 19 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 17 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,024 x 697 px, b-w
- Tone
- Darks 37, lights 234 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.4% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 31.01
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