Barthel motor car, view no. 2. – 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.)
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A window into the past: Barthel motor car, view no. 2., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Barthel motor car, view no. 2.
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The "view no. 2" in the title indicates that this is one of a set of photographs showing the same Barthel motor car from different angles, a common practice when makers or dealers documented a vehicle for catalogs and promotion. Around 1904, automobiles were still a novelty: most were hand-built in small workshops, many roads were unpaved, and the machines were expensive enough that owning one signaled considerable wealth. Pictures like this one give a useful record of how early cars were designed and presented to a public that was just beginning to imagine them as everyday transportation.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Automobiles--1904; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,094 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151912 |
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