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[New York to Paris auto race, 1908: drivers and Indians holding U.S. flag posed by auto in front of house] – Historic Reproduction

[New York to Paris auto race, 1908: drivers and Indians holding U.S. flag posed by auto in front of house], [1908] — historic photograph
[New York to Paris auto race, 1908: drivers and Indians holding U.S. flag posed by auto in front of house], [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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The photograph's title places drivers and Native men holding the U.S. flag beside an automobile in front of a house, which sets it apart from typical race-day views of cars on a track. The 1908 New York to Paris race began in February of that year, when a field of automobiles set out from Times Square and crossed the American West, Alaska and Siberia before reaching France. Picture-making at the time was often staged for publicity, so the flag and the posed group suggest the event was being promoted as a national achievement. The record's data comes from an old caption card and later revisions, so the details of who appears here and where the scene was taken should be read with some caution.

Created / published[1908]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Spooner & Wells. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: News reporters...; Indian tribes--Southwest; Automoble racing; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,190 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131842

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