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President Coolidge gets a new automobile – Antique Wall Art

President Coolidge gets a new automobile, [1927] — historic photograph
President Coolidge gets a new automobile, [1927]. 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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A window into the past: President Coolidge gets a new automobile, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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President Coolidge gets a new automobile

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Calvin Coolidge, who served as the 30th president from 1923 to 1929, is the subject of this 1927 view of his new automobile in Washington, D.C. The print comes from the National Photo Company Collection, a body of work by a commercial studio that recorded everyday life, public events, and official occasions in the capital during the 1910s through the 1930s. Automobiles were becoming a common part of American life in the late 1920s, and photographs like this one show how the presidency was adopting the new technology. The catalog date is bracketed, so the exact day the picture was taken is not confirmed.

Created / published[1927]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection. Item in album: v. 1, p. 13, no. 41150.
SubjectsCoolidge, Calvin,--1872-1933--Associated objects. Automobiles--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,268 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-187749

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