Automobile and motor boat – Vintage 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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This historic photograph of Automobile and motor boat brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Automobile and motor boat
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Pairing an automobile with a motor boat in a single title sets this negative apart from the many road-and-engine views on the board, pointing to two early forms of gasoline-powered travel rather than one. It comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the New York news photo service that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The title was taken from caption cards and is noted as unverified, so the exact vehicles and location remain uncertain. Glass negatives like this one were a standard working medium for press photography before roll film became common, and their fine detail makes the machinery worth a close look.
| 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 | 5,716 × 4,160 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9918 |
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