Shorpy Photo. Elevated view of lots of interesting cars.

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2012: Shorpy Photo. Elevated view of lots of interesting cars.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dane Hawley Near Melbourne Australia on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 04:15 am:

http://www.shorpy.com/node/14113

Best to 'View Full Size'


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Gruber- Spanaway, Wash. on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 08:21 am:

It's dated 1910.
Looks to me like the T in front is a year or two newer.
It has the fore doors I've seen on 12's.
Am I seeing things?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 08:51 am:

Well, it's dated "circa 1910" so likely you know the dates of the cars better than the Shorpy staff :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erik Johnson on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 09:40 am:

Read this if you want to see a much larger version of the photo with greater detail.

Shorpy is merely a photo blog whose purpose, in my opinion, is to try entice viewers to purchase prints of the photos that they post. The photos typically seem to be in the public domain and are from museums and libraries who have online digital access to their collections.

In this particular case, like many of the photos posted on Shorpy, the original photo or negative resides in the Library of Congress collection and is easily accessed online. Click on the link below and you can download an extremely high resolution file of the photo and print it at home for free on high quality paper on your printer or, burn it the file to a disk and take it to your local photo store or print shop and print it on a high resolution printer.

L of C details page for the photo:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994002071/PP/

Here is a high resolution TIF of the photo. It may take a few minutes to download on your computer. You can save this TIF and print your own high resolution copy. Once it opens, click on the magnifying glass and you will see a much larger version of the photo and see greater detail including the "road apples" left by the horses:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/det/4a20000/4a24000/4a24400/4a24482a.tif

In the photo, there are at least two Model Ts with foredoors.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jem Bowkett on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 09:49 am:

Best way to date any photo with people is to find a young woman - she is likely to be wearing the latest fashion, an expert can date that to the exact season. Although you do have to allow for the area; fashion can take a year or so to percolate out into the country.

I am interested by the lack of horse-drawn, apart from the construction gang. In Britain, there were still only about 60,000 cars in the whole country by 1914, lots of local deliveries were still by cart.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 10:08 am:

Looks like it's probably 1912. I think I spotted three 1912 Tourings.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erik Johnson on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 10:18 am:

Lack of horse drawn apart from the construction gang?

That photo is peppered with horses and wagons. Take a second look.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 10:33 am:

I think the presence of fewer than a dozen horse drawn vehicles, like ladies' fashions, is influenced by location. In 1912 the traffic in a big east coast city like Providence would have a much higher automobile content than you would find out here in Podunk. A regular feature in the Arkansas City Daily Traveler is "100 Years Ago in the Traveler". I've noticed that in 1912 a gathering of automobiles or a trip by auto was still uncommon enough here to be a news item worthy of inclusion in the daily paper. My dad, raised in the little town of Sedan over in the next county east, remembered the town's first car. I could kick myself for never asking him what it was.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Eagle Ida Fls on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 10:44 am:

Great picture. Looks like all 3 T tourings have the Foredoors.
What a treat to see.
Thanks
Rich


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Eagle Ida Fls on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 11:24 am:

Can't quit looking at this. First car from bottom to the right of telephone pole is an early Stanley Steamer with it's siphoning hose attached to the side.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By William L Vanderburg on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 11:41 am:

The statue is not facing the same direction now as it was then....


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Chris Barker, Somerset, England on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 11:58 am:

It's now a bus station - Kennedy Plaza.
No statue.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Keith Townsend ; ^ ) Gresham, Orygun on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 12:09 pm:

Gee, I would have thought that the owners of those 1912 cars would have taken the fore-doors off since they were removable.

Oh yeah, people didn't start taking them off until 40 years later...

: ^ )


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Thode Chehalis Washington on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 01:40 pm:

Interesting photo. I see that Shorpy removed the original makers name of COPR. DETROIT PUBLISHING CO. and added their name, cropped just a little, reduced the resolution and removed some of the larger dust spots.

Jim


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Spaziano, Bellflower, CA. on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 06:45 pm:

Taken about ten years before my father was born in that town.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By William L Vanderburg on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 08:51 pm:

I google earthed it...the statue appears to still be there at least in the photograph I saw....


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Kopsky, Lytle TX on Thursday, November 22, 2012 - 09:44 pm:

There's even an APCO outlet on the right with a few cars in front of it. Oh, to only be a time traveler. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Stokes on Friday, November 23, 2012 - 11:01 pm:

A fascinating photo. In an attempt to date it, I thought I'd have a look at the RI Commercial School, to see when it was established. Seems it was started in 1863 - much before the Model T. However, I couldn't help myself - I just had to have a look at this document about the business school (its a superb snapshot of the time - seems to have been written in 1917...
http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1061&context=docu

John Stokes
New Zealand


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