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1940s city street with parked cars and American flags – Historic Photograph Print

1940s city street with parked cars and American flags — historic image
1940s city street with parked cars and American flags. Historic image from the Automobiles collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare historic image captures 1940s city street with parked cars and American flags in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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1940s city street with parked cars and American flags

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Parked cars line both curbs of this unnamed city street, and American flags hang from storefronts and lampposts, suggesting a civic occasion or wartime holiday. Automobiles of the 1940s were boxy, chrome-trimmed and often painted in dark, solid colors, so the rows of them make a useful record of the period's vehicles. Photographs like this one were frequently taken to document daily life on the home front, when gasoline and tires were rationed and cars were kept in service longer than usual. The exact town and date are not recorded, but the scene is a good example of how ordinary streets looked during the war years.

Original scan4,634 × 3,274 px · prints to 15 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference1a34271u Lincoln, Nebraska

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