[Man cranking auto with five women, in front of The Mt. Arlington hotel] – Antique Print
![[Man cranking auto with five women, in front of The Mt. Arlington hotel], [ca. 1914] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9b/9b7fc7136c61-L.webp)
(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 [Man cranking auto with five women, in front of The Mt. Arlington hotel]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Man cranking auto with five women, in front of The Mt. Arlington hotel]
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A man stands at the front of an automobile, turning its hand crank, while five women wait nearby in front of the Mt. Arlington hotel. Hand-cranking was the usual way to start a car around 1914, and the crank could kick back and injure the person turning it, so the job often fell to a man. The hotel was a resort in Mount Arlington, New Jersey, a place that drew summer visitors. The picture came from the National Photo Company, which produced many commercial views of this kind in the 1910s.
| Created / published | [ca. 1914] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Photo by Herbert E. French. Formerly in SPF - Automobiles - 1913. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,210 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-120095 |
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