Auto scene at Cooperstown, North Dakota in October 1906.


Title: Auto scene at Cooperstown, North Dakota in October 1906 [graphic].
Imprint: 1906.
Medium: 1 photographic print on mount : gelatin silver ; 22 x 27 cm.
Part of: Myrtle Porterville Photograph Collection (Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo)
Description: Nine automobiles are lined up on the corner of Burrell and 10th St. in Cooperstown, N.D., with women and men, attired in autoing clothes, in each vehicle. There is a total of thirty-eight adults with six boys standing beside the auto on the left side, and four young girls on the sidewalk looking at the cars. In the background alongside the street are five houses, the State Bank in the Syverson brick building, and another two-story wood building beside it (the former Bank of Cooperstown). There are also sidewalks in front of the businesses and houses, young trees on the boulevard, a suspended street light in the middle of the intersection, and a telephone pole (extreme left side).
Notes: Title handwritten on back of mount.
Photographer unknown.
Only a few persons are identified on back of mount, including Mr. & Mrs. Rollin C. Cooper, George Adams, Frank Simpson, Charles & Chet Piatt, Dr. M. D. Westly and several other names which are impossible to read.
Time Period: 1900-1909.
Location: Cooperstown (N.D.)
Subjects: Automobiles-North Dakota-Cooperstown
  Automobile driving-North Dakota-Cooperstown
  Banks-North Dakota-Cooperstown
  Dwellings-North Dakota-Cooperstown
  Children-North Dakota-Cooperstown
  Trees
  Street lights
  Women-North Dakota-Cooperstown
  Telephone lines-North Dakota-Cooperstown
  Cooper, Rollin C., 1845-1938
  State Bank of Cooperstown (N.D.)
Bank of Cooperstown (N.D.)
Record No.: VM91-000107
Call No.: 296.201.21
Negative No.: 120mm-0032.1a copy neg.
Videodisc No.: RS-1-09342
   
Credit Line: Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (296.201.21)
 
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