[D.C. - Wash. - automobile junkyard] – Historic Print
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(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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[D.C. - Wash. - automobile junkyard] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[D.C. - Wash. - automobile junkyard]
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A 1922 view of an automobile junkyard in Washington, D.C., captures a scene that was becoming familiar across American cities in the years after the First World War. As the country's car population grew rapidly during the 1910s and 1920s, cheap, mass-produced automobiles were often driven until they broke down, and wrecked or worn-out hulks piled up in salvage yards on the edges of town. The photograph shows the stripped and stacked remains of these vehicles, a reminder of how quickly the automobile moved from novelty to everyday machine and how quickly its discarded parts became a business in their own right.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1922 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,175 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124244 |
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