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[Four men with two automobiles outside of garage of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut] – Vintage Print

[Four men with two automobiles outside of garage of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut], [1908] — historic photograph
[Four men with two automobiles outside of garage of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut], [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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Four men stand beside two automobiles outside the garage of Edmund Cogswell Converse in Greenwich, Connecticut, in this 1908 view. Converse was a New York banker whose country property in Greenwich, a town favored by wealthy commuters, was typical of the early 1900s, when a private garage signaled both a new machine and a household that could afford to keep it. The image is a cyanotype, a cheap contact process that produces the distinctive blue-and-white tones seen in many photographs from the decade. Frances Benjamin Johnston's collection preserves it, making it a useful record of how the automobile entered elite domestic life.

Created / published[1908]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1900-1910.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
SubjectsConverse, Edmund Cogswell,--1849-1921--Homes & haunts--Connecticut--Greenwich. Garages--Connecticut--Greenwich--1900-1910. Automobiles--Connecticut--Greenwich--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,300 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186890

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