[Automobile, overloaded with household possessions, broken-down on rural roadside, with family members standing nearby] / Stuart Davis. – Antique Print
![[Automobile, overloaded with household possessions, broken-down on rural roadside, with family members standing nearby] / Stuart Davis., 1926 — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/97/97e383d0f6fb-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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This rare historic drawing captures [Automobile, overloaded with household possessions, broken-down on rural roadside, with family members standing nearby] / Stuart Davis. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Automobile, overloaded with household possessions, broken-down on rural roadside, with family members standing nearby] / Stuart Davis.
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Published under the caption "Don't cry baby," this drawing ran in New Masses as "In a Florida auto camp," and its punch line is a father's promise to look for "a new boom somewhere else." That line points to the Florida land boom, which peaked in 1925 and collapsed during 1926, leaving speculators gone and many newcomers stranded with cars packed to the roof. Stuart Davis, a painter who also contributed drawings to left-leaning magazines of the period, uses the sagging automobile and the huddled family to show working people paying for the bust.
| Created / published | 1926 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : crayon and ink over graphite underdrawing ; 34.5 x 44.5 cm (sheet) |
| Genre | and we'll look for a new boom somwhere else." Published in: New Masses |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Published title: In a Florida auto camp. Published caption: Don't cry baby |
| Subjects | Automobile breakdowns--1920-1930. Internal migration--United States--1920-1930. Families--United States--1920-1930. Working class--United States--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,091 × 4,130 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-211376 |
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