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Shifting for herself / John Held, Jr. – Vintage Wall Art

Shifting for herself / John Held, Jr., 1927 — historic print
Shifting for herself / John Held, Jr., 1927. Historic print 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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Shifting for herself / John Held, Jr.

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Few covers of the period put a woman at the wheel as squarely as this one does, and the title, "Shifting for herself," plays on both the gearshift and the independence that cars offered young women in the 1920s. John Held Jr. was one of the best-known illustrators of the Jazz Age, and his work for *Life*, then a humor weekly rather than the photo magazine it later became, satirized fashion, flappers and the new freedoms of the decade. Printed as a color halftone, the cover shows how commercial reproduction had made such images a staple of American newsstands by 1927.

Created / published1927
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone, color.
GenreMagazine covers 1920-1930.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1920-1930.
NotesIllus. in: Life, v. 89, 1927 Jan. 13, cover.
SubjectsAutomobiles--American--1920-1930. Automobile driving--1920-1930. Women--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,164 × 1,474 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217288

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