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Title: 1909 portrait of Elizabeth Talbot in Sunset automobile
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909-1910
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.html
Description: Young Elizabeth Talbot sits behind the wheel of her family's Sunset automobile, the only automobile mass-produced in San Jose. A bouquet of flowers lay in the back seat. The Victory Motor Company began producing the Sunset in San Jose after their original San Francisco factory was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. The Sunset automobile factory at Martha and South First Streets manufactured cars until 1913.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V500 Photo as a 720 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed 8-bit, JPEG format. Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
Extent: 6.9 x 9.9 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/1052
Language: English
Subject: Automobiles
Girls
Place: San Jose
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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