Messrs Stearn
The 69th Boat Race at Hammersmith, 1912

Albumen print
16 x 21 cm

This photograph depicts Oxford and Cambridge neck and neck at Hammersmith in the 1912 Oxford-Cambridge boat race. This event turned into a dramatic showdown. Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the previous year’s race. The 1912 race took a disastrous turn, however, as the event on the 30th of March ended in Cambridge sinking, Oxford waterlogged and the event being declared a ‘no-race.’ In the subsequent re-row on the following Monday, the race was won by Oxford by six lengths.

Condition: A few soft creases and an old fold towards left edge.

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