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[Family camping beside auto; woman cooking on portable stove in foregrd.] – Historic Print

[Family camping beside auto; woman cooking on portable stove in foregrd.], 1925 — historic print
[Family camping beside auto; woman cooking on portable stove in foregrd.], 1925. Historic print 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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A woman cooking on a portable stove in the foreground sets this color halftone apart from other car-camping images. The scene, a family camped beside their automobile, was reproduced as the front cover of the April 1925 issue of *Motor Camper and Tourist*. By the mid-1920s, cheaper cars such as the Model T had made road trips common, and many families began carrying tents, bedding, and small stoves so they could cook and sleep away from hotels. The cover art shows how the magazine promoted that new outdoor leisure to its readers.

Created / published1925
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone, col.
SubjectsColor halftone of drawing. Illus. in: Motor Camper and Tourist, 1925 April, front cover. No reference copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Camping; Family groups; Automobiles--1925; Stoves; Cooking; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,149 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140599

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