Motor Chapel – Historic Print
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Motor Chapel in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Motor Chapel
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Captioned "Motor Chapel" in the Bain News Service data, this glass negative suggests a place of worship or religious gathering tied to the automobile, though the record gives no date or location to confirm it. The George Grantham Bain Collection holds negatives made by a New York news agency that supplied press photographs in the early twentieth century, so pictures like this were likely taken for newspapers and magazines. As cars spread through American life in the 1910s and 1920s, the press often covered how they changed travel, rural life and daily routines.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,792 × 4,222 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12855 |
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