Riker Truck being shipped – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Riker Truck being shipped. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Riker Truck being shipped
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A glass negative from the Bain News Service shows a Riker truck being shipped, with the vehicle itself as the clear focus. Riker was an early American automaker, and its electric and later gasoline trucks were built in Brooklyn during the first decades of the motor age, when commercial hauling was shifting from horses to engines. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption data, but the Bain agency's New York work from the 1910s offers useful context for when and why such a photograph would have been made.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,872 × 3,283 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-22950 |
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