Auto polo – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Auto polo. 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 polo is a sport that never quite caught on, and this glass negative captures it in the early years of the automobile, when players swapped horses for motorcars on the field. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the body of work produced by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers from the early 1900s onward. The Library of Congress notes that its title rests on unverified caption information, so the exact date, location and players remain uncertain. Even so, the image is worth a close look for what it shows of a brief moment when motor vehicles were being tested in sporting contests.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,710 × 4,153 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12350 |
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