Guatemalan Auto for Army (Cadillac) – Antique 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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Guatemalan Auto for Army (Cadillac) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Guatemalan Auto for Army (Cadillac)
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Many pictures in the Bain collection show automobiles, but this glass negative stands out for naming a Cadillac intended for the army of Guatemala. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information written by the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied newspapers with news photographs in the early twentieth century, and it has not been independently verified. The picture therefore points to the period's interest in motor vehicles for government and military use. The vehicle's body and any people or buildings nearby are the best places to look for clues about the setting.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,735 × 4,141 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11460 |
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