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New York-to-Paris automobile race: [Two men holding U.S. flag behind automobile] – Historic Reproduction

New York-to-Paris automobile race: [Two men holding U.S. flag behind automobile], [1908?] — historic photograph
New York-to-Paris automobile race: [Two men holding U.S. flag behind automobile], [1908?]. Historic photograph from the Automobiles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Snow and a hand-held flag set this photograph apart from other views of the 1908 New York-to-Paris race. Two men stand beside an automobile in a winter scene, one holding the American flag. The race left Times Square in February 1908 and headed west across a continent with few paved roads, where crews often had to haul cars through snow, mud and streams. The American-built Thomas Flyer went on to win in July 1908, and images like this one show how much of the journey depended on the men and machines themselves.

Created / published[1908?]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Spooner and Wells, Inc. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Flags--U.S.--1908?; Automobile racing; Winter scenes; Snow; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,094 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142542

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