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[Four men in automobile, with American flags on snow-covered street, on the New York to San Francisco leg of the 1908 New York to Paris automobile race] – Vintage Wall Art

[Four men in automobile, with American flags on snow-covered street, on the New York to San Francisco leg of the 1908 New York to Paris automobile race], [1908] — historic photograph
[Four men in automobile, with American flags on snow-covered street, on the New York to San Francisco leg of the 1908 New York to Paris automobile race], [1908]. 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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A window into the past: [Four men in automobile, with American flags on snow-covered street, on the New York to San Francisco leg of the 1908 New York to Paris automobile race], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Four men in automobile, with American flags on snow-covered street, on the New York to San Francisco leg of the 1908 New York to Paris automobile race]

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Flags hang over a snow-covered street in this view of four men seated in an automobile, a scene from the transcontinental stretch of the 1908 New York to Paris race. The race left Times Square in February 1908 and crossed the United States before the cars were shipped to Asia for the Siberian crossing. The cars had to cross the American interior in midwinter, when roads were often unpaved and snowbound, so the drivers were as much pioneers as racers. The record credits the New York firm Spooner and Wells, Inc., and does not name the men shown.

Created / published[1908]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesPhoto by Spooner and Wells, Inc., New York.
SubjectsNew York to Paris Race, 1908. Automobiles--United States--1900-1910. Automobile racing--United States--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,280 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-188369

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