[Commercial block of unidentified town, showing autos parked] – Antique Wall Art
![[Commercial block of unidentified town, showing autos parked] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/21/21ddc14ac118-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Commercial block of unidentified town, showing autos parked], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Commercial block of unidentified town, showing autos parked]
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A commercial street in an unidentified town, with automobiles lined up at the curb, is the detail that anchors this print to the early twentieth century. The record dates it only to the 1910s or 1920s ("191-?"), but the parked cars themselves are useful evidence: by that period motor vehicles were moving from novelty to everyday fixture on Main Streets across the country, and storefronts were being reshaped to serve them. Because the town is not named, the picture works less as a record of one place than as a glimpse of how American commercial districts looked as automobile traffic was changing them.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [191-?] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,073 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-126030 |
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