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[Northern Manufacturing Company touring car, three-quarter view] – Historic Print

[Northern Manufacturing Company touring car, three-quarter view], [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
[Northern Manufacturing Company touring car, three-quarter view], [between 1900 and 1905]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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A window into the past: [Northern Manufacturing Company touring car, three-quarter view], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Northern Manufacturing Company touring car, three-quarter view]

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The subject is a touring car built by the Northern Manufacturing Company of Detroit, shown here in a three-quarter view that lets the viewer see both the long body and the front of the machine. Dating from roughly 1900 to 1905, it captures the early years of the American automobile, when carmakers were still refining designs that would soon become standard. The image survives as an 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting Michigan's growing industries and for its commercial photography of the period. Its early origin and careful composition make it a useful record of the car as a product of Detroit's rising manufacturing economy.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043145. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 798 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70132

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