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[2 men working on an automobile outside of automobile plant] – Historic Print

[2 men working on an automobile outside of automobile plant], c1906. — historic photograph
[2 men working on an automobile outside of automobile plant], c1906.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [2 men working on an automobile outside of automobile plant] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Two men work on an automobile in the open air beside a factory building, a scene that the catalog record dates to about 1906 but does not identify further, so the plant and the car's make remain unconfirmed. The print was copyrighted by Waldon Fawcett, a photographer and writer who documented the early motor trade. In the first years of the twentieth century, most cars were still assembled and tested by hand, and workers often moved vehicles outdoors for road trials, repairs, and final adjustments. The picture offers a glimpse of that stage of the industry, when the automobile was still a novelty and its builders were as likely to be mechanics as engineers.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotoprint copyrighted by Waldon Fawcett. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Automobiles--1906; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,205 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151913

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