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Title: 1909 automobile advertisement
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909
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: Photograph of an advertisement for the Sunset "Thirty" automobile manufactured by Victory Motor Car Company in San Jose. By 1909 the Victory Motor Company was advertising that the new Sunset models were "guaranteed to make a mile a minute." The factory was turning out eight new cars a month and more than 230 Sunsets were registered in San Jose alone. But the Sunset never reached a market beyond the San Francisco Bay Area. By 1917 there were only 37 Sunsets registered in California. Today, only one surviving Sunset automobile is known to exist.
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: 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/1047
Language: English
Subject: Advertisements
Automobiles
Place: San Jose
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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