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[Northern automobile, front quarter view without top] – Vintage Print

[Northern automobile, front quarter view without top], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Northern automobile, front quarter view without top], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Northern automobile, front quarter view without top] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Northern automobile, front quarter view without top]

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The subject here is a Northern automobile, shown from a front quarter angle with its top removed, which puts the car's lines and radiator front in view. Detroit Publishing Company was known mainly for travel and scenery views, but its photographers also recorded machines and commercial life in the years before 1910, when the automobile was moving from novelty toward everyday use. The image survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative, later given to the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949, and its company number places it within the firm's larger catalog.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043183. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 779 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70162

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