Scripps Booth sedan, 1921 – Vintage Photo Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Scripps Booth sedan, 1921 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Scripps Booth sedan, 1921
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The Scripps-Booth was a short-lived American automobile, and this glass negative records one of its sedans in 1921, the year the company was still building cars under the Scripps-Booth name in Detroit. The subject is a car rather than a place or a person, which sets it apart from the many street and building views on this board. National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C. studio that worked from the 1910s into the 1930s, produced large numbers of commercial and publicity images, and its glass plates often served as a record of new products and their makers. The record notes that the title comes from unverified information written on the negative sleeve, so the car's model and details should be taken as provisional, and the plate shows the streaks and blemishes typical of aging emulsion.
| Created / published | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,352 × 5,091 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-259273 |
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