Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object |
Negative, Glass Plate |
Photographer |
White, Wills Thomas |
Date |
1908 |
Location |
Vermont, Bennington, Grandview Street |
Description |
Man, woman, and boy sitting in a car parked in front of a two story house. Automobile identified as a 1908 Pope-Tribune model X, Vermont license plate number 1629, no year (probably 1908). House has wraparound porch, shingled sides, and bay windows. There are plants and a cat on the porch. Second house partly visible on left. House located at 122, Lower Grandview Street, Bennington, Vermont, the home of James E. Burke. Burke is presumably the driver of the car with his wife Ethel and son James G. |
Information |
June 19, 1908 edition of the Bennington Evening Banner has the following local news item on page 8: "James Burke is so busy with his Pope-Tribune auto that he hasn't time to eat or sleep. He and N. M. Cottrell went to Hartford after the machine and ran it from there to Bennington in less than six hours, though it was the first time the car was ever out. The machine is a dandy, carries sail well and minds her helm well like the wife of a Nantucket skipper." |
Related People |
White, Wills Thomas Burke, James Edward Burke, James Gordon Burke, Ethel May Stevens |
Credit line |
Weichert-Isselhardt Collection, Gift of Tordis llg Isselhardt and Museum Purchase |
Catalog Number |
2015.6.653 |