New York - Paris race: Jeff. Seligman, banker, start of race, New York – Vintage 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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New York - Paris race: Jeff. Seligman, banker, start of race, New York comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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New York - Paris race: Jeff. Seligman, banker, start of race, New York
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Jeff Seligman, identified in the caption as a banker, stands at the start of the New York to Paris automobile race of 1908, a contest that sent cars across North America, Siberia and Europe in a race of several months. The race drew a field of entrants from several countries, and the start in New York was a major public event that drew crowds and press. Photographs like this one, taken by the Bain News Service, record the pre-departure atmosphere, when the cars were still new and long-distance motoring was a novelty. The caption is based on unverified information from the original negative, so the exact spot and the people in the frame are worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,816 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1365 |
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