- Support holding up this wheel got mostly erased. - corsec67
- Support holding this car up - corsec67
- area that is not photoshopped. area shows typical patterning found in old photos. patterning can be seen replicated throughout if large size of the image is inspected. - CakesPix
- a piece of iron that shows air between it's self and the ground if the large size of the image is inspected. appears to be part of a linkage steering system. Were iron to touch the ground in it's present position and weight of the car placed on it, that sized iron would bend. - CakesPix
- "trigging the wheels" is when you turn too quickly and flip your car. like stubbing your toe. - CakesPix
- appears to be the upper part of a linkage steering system. - CakesPix
- classic "dunebuggy" rollbar in the rear. has resemblance to the VW as well. - CakesPix
- Ad space sold to the local newspaper. - CakesPix
Auto polo (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Auto polo
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11113
Call Number: LC-B2- 2473-9
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Comments and faves
tedkerwin, LukeSkytoker, jxiaan, trey kazee, and 161 other people added this photo to their favorites.
LukeSkytoker (55 months ago | reply)
Amazing!
Comtesse DeSpair (55 months ago | reply)
Seemed like a rather ill-advised sport - but infinitely more entertaining than NASCAR!
Shenanigan Kid (55 months ago | reply)
One match, and they ran out of people and autos
canberra house (55 months ago | reply)
Did anyone get killed playing this crazy game?
scampion (55 months ago | reply)
Remarkable images! Everything is in motion.
the other Martin Taylor (55 months ago | reply)
These look staged which was typical for the day and the equipment. The cars have no motion in them- the only movement is in the men being thrown. You can see something propping up the rear of the car on right. It is a great gag shot and really demonstrates the inventiveness of jobbing photographers of the day.
trey kazee (55 months ago | reply)
good point, martin.
to my eye, it looks like there is an alteration to hide the same prop on the left car, too.
corsec67 (55 months ago | reply)
trey kazee: Yep, it looks like it got scratched out there below the wheel and behind it. To me it looks like the support went up to the axle.
This is indeed a very cool setup.
Zzzzt!Zzzzt! (55 months ago | reply)
great eye, Martin, it's hilarious they set these up. completely in the style of the "jobbing photographers of the day", as you put it. What a find.
@tomh (55 months ago | reply)
oh humanity, what have you done now?
Gamma Infinity (55 months ago | reply)
Yes, the cars are completely static. The wheel spokes are completely sharp, unheard of with the equipment of the day. This is definitely staged, probably to recreate real "thrills and spills" you'd see if you came to the real thing.
The "drivers" are jumping. Nice stunt work, if nothing else.
That ball park sure looks like Fenway, but I'm not sure. Seems like "auto polo" would be pretty hard on the grass, not to mention the players.
zona di fotographia (55 months ago | reply)
I agree throughly, this photo has been staged...!
Dan Lilly (55 months ago | reply)
oh great. ruin the fun guys, sheez
BobMeade (55 months ago | reply)
This pic may have been a staged promotional one.
See movie of an actual Auto Polo game here:
www.usd281.com/townteam/autopolo.mov
and more about the sport here:
www.usd281.com/townteam/autopololinks.html
And this little discussion with some good photos and explanation:
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t= 245777
Fanny Brown Rice (55 months ago | reply)
Hi, LOC, I love these auto polo photos! I had no idea. I'm an admin for a group called www.flickr.com/groups/649247@N24/, and we'd love to have this added to the group -- if you do that sort of thing! Thanks and rock on Library of Congress! Also thanks to lifeasdaddy above for the linkage!
matt21cdog (55 months ago | reply)
Nice to know we haven't devolved any.
Fanny Brown Rice (55 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called www.flickr.com/groups/649247@N24/, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
UnstoppableDrew (55 months ago | reply)
This totally needs to make a comeback.
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Seen on your photo stream. (?)
striatic (47 months ago | reply)
This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Flickring across the Library of Congress
CakesPix (45 months ago | reply)
anybody who thinks this is fake has never been to a night at the supermodifieds. just like this except the roll cages are smaller and a guy only falls out once a season or so. no mallets but rolls like this about ten or twenty times a night. check it at ur local fairgrounds on saturday nights.
the other Martin Taylor (45 months ago | reply)
CakesPix - may be so but the photography technology, chemistry and physics were not readily able to capture this kind of action in 1910.
Limos1 (30 months ago | reply)
Uhhhh......
Barbyr (26 months ago | reply)
Is there any way to take all the stupid comments off these photos?
BlueisCoool (9 months ago | reply)
I can't believe they don't play this incredible sport today - nice find !
This photo was invited and added to the Early Cars to 1970's Cars group.