Ralph Beardsley and J.D. Coote in Simplex – Historic Reproduction
(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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Ralph Beardsley and J.D. Coote in Simplex comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Ralph Beardsley and J.D. Coote in Simplex
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The caption names two men, Ralph Beardsley and J.D. Coote, posed in or with a Simplex, the name of an early American automobile. The Simplex Automobile Company of New Castle, Pennsylvania, built luxury cars in the first decade of the 1900s, when motoring was still new and a car could draw a crowd. The Bain News Service, which made this glass negative, was a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, so its images often capture the everyday and the newsworthy of that era. The record gives no date, and the Bain titles were noted as unverified, so the names and the exact occasion should be checked against other sources.
| 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 | 5,798 × 4,322 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9816 |
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