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N.Y.C. - Motor truck parade, 4/22/11 – Historic Print

N.Y.C. - Motor truck parade, 4/22/11, 1911 — historic photograph
N.Y.C. - Motor truck parade, 4/22/11, 1911. 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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N.Y.C. - Motor truck parade, 4/22/11

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A procession of motor trucks on New York City streets, dated April 22, 1911 on its caption card, shows the city's early turn toward motorized freight. Bain News Service, the photo agency George Grantham Bain founded to supply pictures to newspapers, made the image, and its negatives now sit in the Library of Congress. By 1911 motor trucks were beginning to take over hauling work from horse-drawn wagons, so a parade like this gave businesses a public way to show off the new vehicles. The record does not name the organizers or the route.

Created / published1911
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Trucks; Parades...; NY--NYC--History; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,108 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122938

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