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[Two men in the first American automobile, 1890's] – Antique Wall Art

[Two men in the first American automobile, 1890's], c1927. — historic photograph
[Two men in the first American automobile, 1890's], c1927.. Historic photograph from the Automobiles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Two men in the first American automobile, 1890's] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Two men posed in what the title calls the first American automobile, a spindly 1890s machine built when inventors were still learning how a gasoline engine could replace the horse. The print is dated around 1927, decades after the car's era, and its copyright notice names John W. Stoyer of Highland Park, Michigan, a city later tied to the auto industry through Ford's plant there. The image shows how early motoring was remembered by the late 1920s, when cars had become ordinary. Note how closely the vehicle still resembles the buggy it was meant to replace.

Created / publishedc1927.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesJ294815 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by John W. Stoyer, Highland Park, Michigan.
SubjectsAutomobiles--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,024 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169821

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