Automobile Stopping to Pay Toll at Gate 19 Tollbooth, Staunton, Virginia, 1915-1920

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Artifact Overview

Continuing a practice dating to the late 1700s, some entrepreneurs charged tolls for privately maintained roads. Few turned a profit. This photograph shows an automobile stopped at a Virginia toll station about 1918.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1915-1920

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.1774.X.114

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Family of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 6.5 in
Width: 8.5 in

Inscriptions

Handwritten in red pencil on back of photo: J R Dow (?) / Staunton, Va
Automobile Stopping to Pay Toll at Gate 19 Tollbooth, Staunton, Virginia, 1915-1920