Auto Race, Motor Parkway, Lytle in Isotta winning at finish line – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Auto Race, Motor Parkway, Lytle in Isotta winning at finish line, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Auto Race, Motor Parkway, Lytle in Isotta winning at finish line
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A race car in the Isotta marque takes the finish line at the Motor Parkway on Long Island, a private toll road that hosted motor racing after it opened in 1908. The driver is listed as Lytle, but that name comes from caption data the record itself marks as unverified. The Bain News Service, which George Grantham Bain founded, sent photographers to newsworthy events and sold their glass-plate negatives to newspapers, which explains why a moment like this finish survives in such crisp detail.
| Created / published | 10/10/08. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,885 × 4,316 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3498 |
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