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Automobiles - Ralph Beardsley and J.D. Coote in Simplex [on race track] – Vintage Wall Art

Automobiles - Ralph Beardsley and J.D. Coote in Simplex [on race track], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Automobiles - Ralph Beardsley and J.D. Coote in Simplex [on race track], [no date recorded on caption card]. 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 Automobiles - Ralph Beardsley and J.D. Coote in Simplex [on race track] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Automobiles - Ralph Beardsley and J.D. Coote in Simplex [on race track]

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Two drivers, Ralph Beardsley and J.D. Coote, sit at the wheel of a Simplex on a race track, a pairing that sets this print apart from the many Bain Collection pictures of cars posed on roads and in showrooms. The Simplex was an American luxury touring and racing car built in the years before the First World War, when long-distance and track competition was a popular way for manufacturers to show their engineering to buyers. The caption card's subject tracings date the car to 1910, though the card itself records no date. George Grantham Bain was a news photographer and his collection holds many images of this kind, so the picture is a useful record of early motor racing as it was covered in the press.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Automobile racing; Automobiles--Simplex--1910; BI; Shelf. Sources checked on verso of card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,141 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147761

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