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[Side view of two automobiles, one a convertible, with Black Mesa, New Mexico in the background] – Antique Photo Print

[Side view of two automobiles, one a convertible, with Black Mesa, New Mexico in the background], [ca. 1924] — historic photograph
[Side view of two automobiles, one a convertible, with Black Mesa, New Mexico in the background], [ca. 1924]. 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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Two automobiles sit in the foreground of this c. 1924 view, one of them a convertible with its top down, against the flat-topped bulk of Black Mesa in northern New Mexico. By the mid-1920s, car ownership was spreading quickly through the American Southwest, and motorists were beginning to cross desert and valley country that had once been reached mainly by wagon or rail. Pictures like this one, which pair new cars with a landmark, show how the automobile was becoming a familiar part of rural landscapes in the region.

Created / published[ca. 1924]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesMissing from Specific Subj File, 1/10/95
SubjectsAutomobiles--New Mexico--1920-1930. Convertible automobiles--New Mexico--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,152 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124254

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