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[2 men and 3 women in 1906? auto convertible; parked at Gettysburg battlefield] – Antique Print

[2 men and 3 women in 1906? auto convertible; parked at Gettysburg battlefield], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[2 men and 3 women in 1906? auto convertible; parked at Gettysburg battlefield], [no date recorded on caption card]. 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 and 3 women in 1906? auto convertible; parked at Gettysburg battlefield] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A touring car with its top folded down sits on the Gettysburg battlefield, with two men and three women posed beside it. The caption card dates the photograph to 1906, though with a question mark and no firm source, so the date should be treated as tentative. Gettysburg had been designated a national military park in 1895, and by the early 1900s it drew visitors who toured the field by carriage and, increasingly, by automobile. The scene captures that moment, when the battlefield's monuments and open fields met a newly popular form of travel.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Automobiles--1906?; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,229 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131201

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