Man sitting in Hayne's open-air automobile, California, ca.1900

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Photograph of a man sitting in Hayne's open-air automobile, California, ca.1900. This is America's oldest automobile. It was built by Elwood Haynes of Kokomo, Indiana, and was exhibited in Chicago in 1895 and chased off the streets by the police (according to Scribner's Popular History of American Inventions). The driver is wearing a white skimmer and rumpled suit and, grinning broadly, is hunched over in the driver's seat clasping the steering column. A truck is visible parked in the background adjacent to a two-story brick building.; "First automobile mishap described by local man, son of its victim: Old dobbin on Indiana road rears, bolts and tosses driver under horseless carriage -- The first accident attributed to the 'horseless carriage' was described today by Dr. Z.U. Loop, 3702 Bagley Avenue, Culver City, who told of how he rendered first aid and sent the patient to the hospital. It was in 1894, and according to what Dr. Loop was able to gather from eye witnesses, it happened like this: -- At that time I practiced in Galveston, Indiana about nine miles from the home of Elwood Haynes, inventor of the Haynes automobile, one of the first three automobiles developed. -- My father was in the habit of touring the countryside in his buckboard. Mr. Haynes was just beginning to startle the farmers by appearing on the roads with his experimental models. -- Mr. Haynes' quivering, gasping 'tin steed' and my father's horse met on the road one day. Father's horse gave the 'gasoline nag' an indignant look, executed a sharp U turn, which deposited my father under the wheels of Mr. Haynes' car, and bolted. They took dad to the nearest farmhouse and sent for me. I reckon it was the first motor traffic accident. I've never been able to find a record of an earlier one." -- Newspaper clipping.

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Title Man sitting in Hayne's open-air automobile, California, ca.1900

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Transportation (subject), Transportation -- Automobiles -- General (file heading), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 15 x 20 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), portraits (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11695

Identifier 3754 (accession number), CHS-3754 (call number), CHS-3754 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11108 (legacy record id), chs-m11695 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11846 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11108

Unique identifier UC118616

Legacy Identifier CHS-3754.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 42.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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