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Radio equipment used on automobiles during the campaign – Antique Wall Art

Radio equipment used on automobiles during the campaign, [1924] — historic photograph
Radio equipment used on automobiles during the campaign, [1924]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Radio equipment used on automobiles during the campaign. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Few campaign photographs show the machinery itself, and this one puts the equipment at the center: radio gear fitted to automobiles during Calvin Coolidge's 1924 campaign for the presidency. Coolidge had taken office after Warren Harding's death in 1923 and ran as the Republican incumbent, and 1924 was among the first American election seasons in which radio reached a national audience. Mounting transmitting or receiving apparatus on cars was an improvised way to carry a candidate's words beyond the crowds at a single stop. The National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio that recorded public life in the 1910s through 1930s, made the print.

Created / published[1924]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection. Item in album: v. 2, p. 12, no. 31890.
SubjectsCoolidge, Calvin,--1872-1933. Presidential elections--1920-1930. Broadcasting--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,250 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-187779

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