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Tourist's Inn, William Penn Highway between Annville and Palmyra, Pa. – Vintage Print

Tourist's Inn, William Penn Highway between Annville and Palmyra, Pa., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Tourist's Inn, William Penn Highway between Annville and Palmyra, Pa., [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare historic photograph captures Tourist's Inn, William Penn Highway between Annville and Palmyra, Pa. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Tourist's Inn, William Penn Highway between Annville and Palmyra, Pa.

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Tourist's Inn sat on the William Penn Highway between Annville and Palmyra in south-central Pennsylvania, a stretch of road named for the state's founder that carried automobile travelers across the state. The caption card lists lodging and gasoline among its subjects, which points to a roadside stop built to serve motorists who needed a bed and a fill-up. Such businesses spread along American highways as car travel grew in the 1920s and 1930s. The record gives no date, so the picture's exact age is unknown, but it documents a common and now-vanished kind of roadside commerce.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesWittemann Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Lodging houses; Gasoline; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,078 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148796

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