Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race, Robertson winning – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Step back in time with Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race, Robertson winning, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race, Robertson winning
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The title singles out Robertson as the winner, which sets this frame apart from other views of the Vanderbilt Cup on this board. The race was run on October 24, 1908, on a course laid out on Long Island, where the event had been contested since 1904 and drew leading American and European automakers. Bain News Service, a New York press photo agency, sent photographers to such events, and glass negatives like this one were the standard working format of the period, so the picture shows the cars and the spectators much as the newspapers of the day would have seen them.
| Created / published | 10/24/08. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,792 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3678 |
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