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Paris motor show opens / Wide World photo. – Historic Photograph Print

Paris motor show opens / Wide World photo. — historic photograph
Paris motor show opens / Wide World photo.. 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 Paris motor show opens / Wide World photo. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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What sets this picture apart is its subject: German automobiles shown at the opening of a Paris motor show in 1950, only about five years after the war ended. France and Germany were still working through the bitterness of occupation, so German makers returning to a French exhibition hall was a notable moment. Wide World Photos, a news picture agency, supplied images like this to newspapers, which made major exhibition openings a common feature of the period's press. The photograph offers a record of how the car industry and public interest in new vehicles were recovering in the early 1950s.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1950
SubjectsExhibitions--France--Paris--1950. Automobiles--German--France--Paris--1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,262 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177521

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