Actress posed in a Roamer Car, 1920

nitrate negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Manhattan
1920-05-07
nitrate negative
10 x 8 x 0 in.

10x8 nitrate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons, May 7, 1920, in Manhattan, New York. Closeup view of a female actress seated at the stearing wheel of a Roamer automobile while parked with a view of Grant's Tomb in the background. Roamer Cars were originally built in Streator, Illinois. The actress is wearing a hat with round balls sewn at intervals all the way around the brim and is wearing what looks to be a fur stole. Typed negative sleeve info.: "10,864(A) / [Box] 854-5". Handwritten note on neg. sleeve: "May 7/20 / Photo of Actress in Roamer Car / Rex. W. Wadman". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.


1984.187.10864A

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection



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