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[Automobile on muddy rural road during race between New York and San Francisco] – Historic Print

[Automobile on muddy rural road during race between New York and San Francisco], [1908] — historic photograph
[Automobile on muddy rural road during race between New York and San Francisco], [1908]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Automobile on muddy rural road during race between New York and San Francisco] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Automobile on muddy rural road during race between New York and San Francisco]

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Mud and ruts dominate this 1908 view of a car struggling along a rural road, a reminder of how little of the country had paved routes when the New York to Paris Race began that February. The entrants left Times Square and first had to cross the United States toward San Francisco, where the cars were shipped across the Pacific before crossing Siberia and Europe. The studio of Spooner and Wells in New York produced the print, and its record ties it to the race's transcontinental stage, when drivers often spent days pulling their cars out of bogs and washouts.

Created / published[1908]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesBy(?) Spooner and Wells, Inc., New York. No. 26226.
SubjectsNew York to Paris Race, 1908. Automobile racing--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,027 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167053

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