Auto Polo, Coney Isl. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Auto Polo, Coney Isl. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Auto Polo, Coney Isl.
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Auto polo, a fast and rough cousin of the horseback game, was played on Coney Island in the early twentieth century, when the Brooklyn resort drew crowds for novelties of every kind. This glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the large body of pictures made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers across the country. The title was supplied by the agency itself and has not been independently verified, and the record gives no date, so the exact game and year remain uncertain. Still, the subject fits the period, when motorcars were new enough to be a spectacle and sporting events on the Coney Island grounds were often staged to amuse large paying audiences.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,804 × 4,247 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-14200 |
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