We get a lot of requests to do photo shoots at the Nelson-Atkins. For commercial shoots or ones that require some assistance, we escort the photographers during their work.
They are usually pretty fun. We've had fashion models, ballerinas, companies doing their annual reports and other stuff like that. This week, we had a special photo shoot: a man and his car.
The car is a 1911 Stafford that was built by the Stafford Motor Car Co. of Kansas City, KS. It is being featured in the Art of the Car Concourse this weekend at the Kansas City Art Institute.
President Harry Truman owned a Stafford that he bought with $600 he borrowed from his mother-in-law. It turns out that the Museum has a resident Truman re-enactor. He donned his costume and was more than happy to take the car for a spin.
Photography Tom Strongman had some fun with the picture.
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