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[Racing automobile no. 14 on Benning race track, Washington, D.C., area on Labor Day] – Historic Print

[Racing automobile no. 14 on Benning race track, Washington, D.C., area on Labor Day], [1915] — historic photograph
[Racing automobile no. 14 on Benning race track, Washington, D.C., area on Labor Day], [1915]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Racing automobile no. 14 on Benning race track, Washington, D.C., area on Labor Day]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This photograph shows car number 14 in competition at the Benning race track, on the eastern edge of Washington, D.C., during a Labor Day event in 1915. Labor Day auto races drew large crowds of spectators, and tracks like Benning gave the rapidly growing motor age a public stage in the years before the First World War. The image comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington studio that documented the city's streets, events and people in the 1910s and 1920s. Its pictures of early racing cars are useful for seeing how the machines, the dirt tracks and the spectators' dress looked in that period.

Created / published[1915]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection.
SubjectsRacing automobiles--Washington Metropolitan Area--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,300 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177128

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