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[Man standing in rut, with hand on automobile] – Antique Print

[Man standing in rut, with hand on automobile], [192-(?)] — historic photograph
[Man standing in rut, with hand on automobile], [192-(?)]. Historic photograph from the Automobiles 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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A window into the past: [Man standing in rut, with hand on automobile], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A man in a suit stands in a deep rut at the side of an unpaved road, one hand resting on the body of a convertible automobile. The record ties the picture to the U.S. Public Roads Administration, a federal agency that studied and built highways in the 1920s, so the photograph was likely made to document the poor condition of a road rather than as a portrait. Its subjects list car, road and rut together, which makes it a useful record of how rough early motor travel could be when many routes were still dirt. The exact location and date are not given in the record.

Created / published[192-(?)]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesU.S. Public Roads Administration photo. No. 6986.
SubjectsConvertible automobiles--1920-1930. Roads--1920-1930. Ruts--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-187296

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