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Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup Race – Historic Print

Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup Race, 1904 — historic photograph
Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup Race, 1904. 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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Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup Race

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The race pictured here is the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup, run on a closed circuit of public roads on Long Island, New York. The event was put on by William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and drew European and American automobile makers to a contest of speed and endurance at a time when the car was still a novelty on American roads. The print is an enlargement from a motion picture by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, so its detail comes from a single film frame, and the date and other details come from an old caption card that has not been independently verified.

Created / published1904
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesEnlargement made from motion picture by American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,025 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107799

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