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Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup Race – Vintage Print

Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup Race, 1904 — historic photograph
Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup Race, 1904. 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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Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup Race comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup Race

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Staged on Long Island's Hempstead Plains, the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup was an early test of automobile speed and endurance, sponsored by William K. Vanderbilt Jr. This print is an enlargement from a motion picture made by American Mutoscope & Biograph, so it preserves a moment in motion rather than a posed still. Early road racing was dangerous for drivers and spectators alike, and the Cup helped turn the motorcar from a novelty into a subject of public fascination. The caption details for this record are unverified, but the scene offers a useful glimpse of the sport's first years.

Created / published1904
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesEnlargement made from motion picture by American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,046 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107800

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