[Automobile engine] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Automobile engine], [between 1912 and 1930] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/48/48f602bb21a1-L.webp)
(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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[Automobile engine]
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Few subjects in this collection show the rise of the motorcar as plainly as an automobile engine, with the machinery itself as the focus rather than the vehicle around it. Library staff devised the title, and the negative dates from between 1912 and 1930, when motoring was spreading quickly through American towns and cities. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio active in those years, recorded the city and its surroundings on glass plates like this one. Viewers should notice the streaks and blemishes in the coating, which come from natural deterioration of the original emulsion rather than from the photographer's choices.
| Created / published | [between 1912 and 1930] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch six |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,048 × 4,370 px · prints to 20 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-257176 |
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