CULVER PICTURES INC. [STOCK DISTRIBUTOR], Jim Thorpe winning 200 meter race, 1912, 4.625x6.375" gelatin silver print, printed c. 1912. Inscribed in black ink (?) on print recto in upper right corner of image: 2551-14, inscribed in pencil on print verso: Jim Thorpe winning 200 meter race 1912 / 6; printed label: [barcode] / PEO145 CP001 067 People: THO-TOJ / Origin: Culver Pictures Inc Old# / Print BW / Thorpe, Jim (1888-1953) American Indian athlete, won 1912 Olympic pentathlon, decathlon; later pro ball; printed label: Culver Pictures, Inc. / 150 West 22nd Street 3rd Floor / New York, NY 10011-2421 / 212 645-1672 / This picture is loaned for one-time reproduction / only, subject to terms and conditions on delivery / memo. No model release unless specified - may not / be used for advertising without written permission; stamped in black ink: Culver Pictures, Inc. / 150 West 22nd Street / Suite 300 / New York, New York 10011 / (212) 645-1672; stamped in black ink: 46086.

Jim Thorpe, byname of James Francis Thorpe, (born May 28, 1888, near Prague, Indian Territory [now in Oklahoma], U.S.,died March 28, 1953, Lomita, California), one of the most accomplished all-around athletes in history, who in 1950 was selected by American sportswriters and broadcasters as the greatest American athlete and the greatest gridiron football player of the first half of the 20th century.

Predominantly of American Indian (Sauk and Fox) descent, Thorpe attended Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas, and Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Indian Industrial School. While playing football for Carlisle under coach Pop Warner, he was chosen as halfback on Walter Camp's All-America teams in 1911 and 1912. He was a marvel of speed, power, kicking, and all-around ability. Also in 1912 Thorpe won the decathlon and the pentathlon by wide margins at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, but in 1913 an investigation by the Amateur Athletic Union showed that he had played semiprofessional baseball in 1909 and 1910, which should have disqualified him from Olympic competition. He was subsequently deprived of his gold medals.

From 1913 through 1919, Thorpe was an outfielder for the New York, Cincinnati (Ohio), and Boston baseball teams in the National League. He was more successful as one of the early stars of American professional football from 1919 through 1926. He spent two seasons (1922–23) with the Oorang Indians, whose owner attracted crowds by having Thorpe and his teammates dress up and perform "Indian" tricks before games and at halftime. In 1920–21 he served as the first president of the American Professional Football Association (later the National Football League [NFL]). He also excelled in such diverse sports as basketball, boxing, lacrosse, swimming, and hockey. In his later years, even as he was celebrated in magazine and newspaper articles as one of the greatest athletes of all time, alcoholism and inability to adjust to employment outside sports reduced Thorpe to near poverty. The 1951 film biography of his life, titled Jim Thorpe—All American and starring Burt Lancaster, transformed his story into uplifting melodrama, with the fallen hero rescued by his old coach Pop Warner.

In 1954, after his death, the communities of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, merged to form the borough of Jim Thorpe. From 1955 the Jim Thorpe Trophy was awarded annually to the most valuable player in the NFL. In 1973 the Amateur Athletic Union restored his amateur status, but the International Olympic Committee did not recognize his amateur status until 1982. Thorpe was subsequently restored as a "cowinner" of the decathlon and pentathlon of the 1912 Olympic Games (along with the second-place finishers in those events). His Olympic gold medals were restored to his family in 1983.

Credit: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jim-Thorpe-American-athlete

Culver Pictures, Inc, was founded on March 16, 1960. The Culver family has been collecting all manner of printed imagery since 1926, chiefly photographs and illustrations covering the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. The archive includes nearly a million photographic images (most of which have been digitized), plus over a million engravings, illustrations and gravure prints. There are also magnificent copperplate engravings and close to two hundred thousand photographic negatives--nitrate, poly, and glass--most of which have yet to be digitized.

Because Culver Pictures still exists today, the Culver stamp can appear on both an early and a modern photo. Culver bought out much of the Bain News Service archives, so many Bain photos can also have a Culver stamp.

Bain News Service (1898-1930s) was itself one of the earlier news services, founded by photographer George Grantham Bain. Many of Bain's photos are snapshot sized and can have either the Bain News Service stamp or Bain's full name. All of his photos are old, and most are originals with sharp and clear images. Many of his photos have image titles and other notes in the image in white writing (written on the negative and printed as part of the image).

Credit: https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/culver-pictures-inc
https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/tips-identifying-sports-news-photos-vintage/

Good. Creases, edge wear. Some emulsion loss in print margin, does not affect image.