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Antique automobiles lined up for the parade at the press preview of the Motor City Cavalcade, Franklin Village, Mich. – Historic Photo Reproduction

Antique automobiles lined up for the parade at the press preview of the Motor City Cavalcade, Franklin Village, Mich., [193-?] — historic photograph
Antique automobiles lined up for the parade at the press preview of the Motor City Cavalcade, Franklin Village, Mich., [193-?]. 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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Step back in time with Antique automobiles lined up for the parade at the press preview of the Motor City Cavalcade, Franklin Village, Mich., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Antique automobiles lined up for the parade at the press preview of the Motor City Cavalcade, Franklin Village, Mich.

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Franklin Village, Michigan, a suburb northwest of Detroit, is the setting for this view of old automobiles lined up for the parade at the Motor City Cavalcade's press preview. The caption card dates the photograph only to the 193- decade, and its subject tags point to cars of the 1900s, so the vehicles were likely early models shown as a historical display. Detroit's nickname as the Motor City reflects the auto industry that grew there in the early twentieth century, and the press preview invited reporters to see how far car design had come.

Created / published[193-?]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mich.; Parades; Automobiles--1900-1909; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,236 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131854

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