Working on motor speedway – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Working on motor speedway. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Crews at work on a motor speedway are the focus of this Bain News Service negative, though the title comes from unverified caption data, so the specific track and workers are not identified. Around 1910, automobile racing enthusiasm led builders to raise banked ovals, many made of planks laid over timber framing, and newspaper photographers recorded such construction as news. The Bain News Service, a New York wire photo agency, supplied images like this one to newspapers for quick distribution, and its glass negatives now serve as a useful record of how these early tracks were put together.
| Created / published | 9/23/10. |
|---|---|
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,272 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9817 |
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