On motor speedway - at grand stand – Antique Print
(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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On motor speedway - at grand stand
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Few details survive for this glass negative, so the record can only point to a motor speedway and its grandstand, a pairing typical of American auto racing in the early 1910s, when board tracks and dirt ovals drew crowds of thousands to watch cars run lap after lap. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the photographs of the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold pictures of current events to newspapers and magazines. Its title and date come from unverified notes written on the negative or caption card, so the scene and its timing should be read with that caution in mind. The view of the stands still shows how spectators gathered to watch the early motor racing that made speedways a fixture of American sport.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,816 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9799 |
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