Motor Chapel – Antique Print
(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 historic photograph of Motor Chapel brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Motor Chapel
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The title *Motor Chapel* suggests a place of worship built around the automobile, but the record notes that it comes from caption information supplied by the Bain News Service and has not been verified. Bain's agency, based in New York in the early twentieth century, sold news photographs to newspapers, and its glass negatives document how the car was reshaping American daily life. With no date recorded, the picture is best read against that period, when motoring was new and communities were still working out how it fit alongside older institutions such as the church.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,704 × 4,266 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12854 |
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