The First Final: Uruguay v. Argentina
Los Sports magazine, 1930
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 78 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe 30th of July, 1930, at the Estadio Centenario: Uruguay 4, Argentina 2 — the first final of the first World Cup, played with two match balls because the finalists could not agree on one. The Chilean sporting weekly Los Sports printed the match photography within days, and its pages are how the first final actually reached the continent that had just staged it: halftone frames of Castro and Cea and the crowd of sixty-eight thousand under winter light. The century’s tournament began as a magazine spread. Sold here as what it is — the first page of the biggest story in sport.
- Maker
- Los Sports magazine
- Date
- 1930
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- Los Sports magazine, 1930 · Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Los Sports magazine, 1930 · Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01097
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 | 78 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 12 in | 48 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | 39 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | 32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | 26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 19 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 16 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 783 x 647 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 35, lights 214 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 59.78
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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