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REO Mountaineer, New York to San Francisco and back – Historic Print

REO Mountaineer, New York to San Francisco and back, [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
REO Mountaineer, New York to San Francisco and back, [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of REO Mountaineer, New York to San Francisco and back. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The subject here is an automobile, the REO Mountaineer, shown as the car that made a round trip from New York to San Francisco and back, a feat that was still notable in the early years of motoring. The REO Motor Car Company was founded by Ransom E. Olds in 1904, after he left the company that bore his name, so the picture captures one of the firm's early vehicles. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass negative sometime between 1900 and 1905, was better known for its commercial views of cities, resorts and landscapes, and its archive offers a useful record of how automobiles were presented to the public in that period. The note "Huber's Hotel" suggests the location was tied to the hotel, a common backdrop for early motoring photographs.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
NotesHuber's Hotel
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 758 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70745

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