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[Double-decker bus Pickwick Stages System"]" – Vintage Wall Art

[Double-decker bus Pickwick Stages System"]", [between 1909 and 1940] — historic photograph
[Double-decker bus Pickwick Stages System"]", [between 1909 and 1940]. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company 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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Pickwick Stages, a motor coach line that carried passengers between cities in California and the West, is the company behind this double-decker bus. Double-decker coaches were an unusual sight on American highways in the years between the wars, when intercity travel by road was growing quickly. This picture comes from the National Photo Company collection, a commercial studio whose work documents daily life and transportation in the early twentieth century. The negative is a 1947 copy made on safety film, and its streaks and blemishes reflect the aging of the original coatings.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1940]
Medium1 negative : safety film ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller
GenreSafety film negatives.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Copy neg. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch six.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,971 × 4,322 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-257603

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