The 9th of June, 1924, at Colombes: Uruguay 3, Switzerland 0, in front of a crowd that had spent a fortnight discovering a kind of football it did not know existed. The Olympic tournament was the world championship in all but name, and Uruguay — a country of a million and a half people who had crossed the Atlantic by boat and paid their way with exhibition matches — won it playing the most technically advanced game anyone in Europe had seen. Six years later they hosted and won the first World Cup. This is where that began. The first world championship was won by a country of a million and a half.

Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1924
Medium of the original: Glass plate negative
Original held by: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1924 · Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1924 · Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01118

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 9.7%
12 x 8 in	450	Excellent	Trimmed 7.7%
14 x 11 in	354	Excellent	Trimmed 8.1%
16 x 12 in	325	Excellent	Trimmed 3.7%
18 x 12 in	300	Excellent	Trimmed 7.7%
20 x 16 in	243	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
24 x 16 in	225	Excellent	Trimmed 7.7%
24 x 18 in	216	Excellent	Trimmed 3.7%
30 x 20 in	180	Good	Trimmed 7.7%
30 x 24 in	162	Good	Trimmed 9.7%
36 x 24 in	150	Good	Trimmed 7.7%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
40 x 30 in	130 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 3,900 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 23, lights 239 of 255; 0.1% clipped light, 2% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 2.77