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[Automobile stuck in ditch on road in New York] – Antique Wall Art

[Automobile stuck in ditch on road in New York], [1909] — historic photograph
[Automobile stuck in ditch on road in New York], [1909]. 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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A window into the past: [Automobile stuck in ditch on road in New York], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Automobile stuck in ditch on road in New York]

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A car has slid nose-first into a roadside ditch on a New York State road, its driver left to work out how to get it back onto the road. The picture dates to 1909, a time when automobiles were still new and most rural roads were unpaved dirt or gravel, with shallow drainage ditches that could catch an unwary driver. It comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the files of a news photography service that sold pictures to newspapers, so it was likely made to document an everyday mishap of early motoring. Pictures like this show how quickly the car had outrun the roads it was meant to travel.

Created / published[1909]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection.
SubjectsAutomobiles--New York (State)--1900-1910. Traffic accidents--New York (State)--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,257 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-188348

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