Housewives' League car – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Housewives' League car. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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An automobile labeled for the Housewives' League is the detail that sets this picture apart, showing how women's consumer groups of the early twentieth century used public displays to press their causes. Such leagues generally urged members to weigh prices, quality, and the origins of goods, and they often took to parades and street events to publicize their aims. The photograph comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with pictures from about 1900 into the 1920s, so it likely reflects press interest in organized women's activism of that era. The record does not give a date, so the exact occasion remains uncertain.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,872 × 3,308 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26500 |
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