[Oregon - automobile in road beside fishing stream]

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A roadside scene in Oregon, c1921, shows a car parked on a dirt road beside a fishing stream, a pairing that says a good deal about how motoring was changing rural life in the early 1920s. By then the automobile had moved well beyond the cities, and families and anglers were using it to reach streams and backcountry that had once required a long wagon ride or a walk. The print was made by a photographer identified in the record as E.F. Martin, and it is held by the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The record's details come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified, so the exact location of the stream and the people involved remain uncertain.

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