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[Presidential automobile, ca. 1924 Lincoln, parked in front of stores, with the chauffeur seated behind the steering wheel] / photo by National Photo Co. – Historic Photograph Print

[Presidential automobile, ca. 1924 Lincoln, parked in front of stores, with the chauffeur seated behind the steering wheel] / photo by National Photo Co., [ca. 1924] — historic photograph
[Presidential automobile, ca. 1924 Lincoln, parked in front of stores, with the chauffeur seated behind the steering wheel] / photo by National Photo Co., [ca. 1924]. 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.)

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[Presidential automobile, ca. 1924 Lincoln, parked in front of stores, with the chauffeur seated behind the steering wheel] / photo by National Photo Co.

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A chauffeur sits behind the wheel of a Lincoln automobile identified as the presidential car, parked on a Washington, D.C., street in front of a row of stores. The photograph dates to about 1924, when Calvin Coolidge had been president for roughly a year after Warren G. Harding's death in 1923. Lincoln had come under Ford ownership in 1922, and its cars were known for quality and craftsmanship. The picture was made by the National Photo Company, a Washington firm known for its large body of city and government photographs, so it also shows an everyday commercial streetscape of the period.

Created / published[ca. 1924]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
SubjectsCoolidge, Calvin,--1872-1933--Associated objects. Lincoln Motor Company (Detroit, Mich.)--Products--1920-1930. Automobiles--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,232 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118298

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