Resolute
Bain News Service, 1915
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 16% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyResolute, the Herreshoff defender-elect, sailing trials in 1915 while the match itself waited on the war. The big-class record between the Edwardian era and the Js — kept by the Bain agency through the long postponement.
- 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-02028
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 |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 85 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 34 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 17 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 689 x 1,024 px, b-w
- Tone
- Darks 42, lights 246 of 255; 0.5% clipped light, 0.5% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 32.62
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