W.A. Smoot & Co. autocar truck – Antique Photo Print
![W.A. Smoot & Co. autocar truck, [1919 or 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c1/c117d4b7eb2e-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of W.A. Smoot & Co. autocar truck. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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W.A. Smoot & Co. autocar truck
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The truck in this glass negative is an Autocar, identified in the title with W.A. Smoot & Co., and the plate dates from about 1919 or 1920. Autocar was a gasoline-truck maker based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and by the end of the First World War motor trucks like this one were beginning to replace horse-drawn wagons for city deliveries. The National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio, made this negative. Look for the streaks and blemishes across the glass, which come from the natural deterioration of the original coatings.
| Created / published | [1919 or 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. 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 six. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,919 × 5,337 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-258243 |
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