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American Motor School – Historic Print

American Motor School, [between 1910 and 1930] — historic photograph
American Motor School, [between 1910 and 1930]. 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 American Motor School. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The title, *American Motor School*, points to a training program for people learning to drive and repair the automobile, a skill set that grew in demand as cars moved from novelty to everyday transport in the 1910s and 1920s. The print was copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, a New York firm best known for stereoview cards and commercial photography that documented American life in that era. Because the record gives no exact date or location, the picture is best read as a window onto how mechanical knowledge was taught to a new generation of workers.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1930]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1930.
Notes19095-R U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
SubjectsAutomobiles--1910-1930. Mechanics (Persons)--1910-1930. Automobile repair--1910-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-198416

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