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Two Early Automobiles – Vintage Wall Art

Two Early Automobiles — historic photograph
Two Early Automobiles. 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.)

Description

This rare historic photograph captures Two Early Automobiles 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 Early Automobiles

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Two early automobiles sit side by side in this c1940 print, and the title alone tells us little about their makers or models, so the picture rewards a close look at their boxy bodies, open fenders and high, spoked wheels. By 1940 these cars would already have been decades old, which made them rare survivors of the period when motoring was new and roads were still largely unpaved. Prints like this one, held in the Library of Congress, were often made to document such vehicles for historical or commercial reference, preserving a record of an era when the automobile was just beginning to reshape American life.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,189 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129322

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