[Street view with automobile parked in foreground, Kingman, Kansas] – Antique Photo Print
![[Street view with automobile parked in foreground, Kingman, Kansas], [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/95/95be1bee6640-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Street view with automobile parked in foreground, Kingman, Kansas], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Street view with automobile parked in foreground, Kingman, Kansas]
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Kingman, Kansas, a small agricultural town in Kingman County, is the setting here, and the photograph's foreground is dominated by a parked automobile rather than a building or a crowd. That detail makes it a useful record of early motoring in rural America, when cars were still a novelty in towns of this size. The 1910s saw automobile ownership expand rapidly across the Midwest, and images like this show how the new machines sat alongside horses, wagons and unpaved or lightly paved streets. The record gives no maker or photographer, so the scene itself is the main evidence to study.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | Automobiles--Kansas--Kingman--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,157 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-163518 |
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