The Cambridge Eight competing in a shell race

The Cambridge Eight on the River Thames, pictured rowing in a large egg shell! The latin text in the water beyond read Ab Ovo, which translates as from the egg'. All this visual and textual word-pay refers to their 8-man rowing boat (octuple scull), which is also known as a shell'. The Cambridge crew had a famous shell race against the 8 from Harvard University (of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) on September 8, 1906, on the Thames, starting at Putney, London (Putney Bridge visible in the background)

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