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[Ill. - Evanston - street scene; many autos parked] – Historic Photograph Print

[Ill. - Evanston - street scene; many autos parked] — historic photograph
[Ill. - Evanston - street scene; many autos parked]. 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: [Ill. - Evanston - street scene; many autos parked], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Ill. - Evanston - street scene; many autos parked]

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Few details in the record pin down the exact block, but this view of Evanston, Illinois, the lakeside suburb just north of Chicago, shows a street lined with parked automobiles. The notes date it to the 191- decade, roughly the 1910s, when the Ford Model T had put motoring within reach of many middle-class families and curbside parking was becoming a familiar sight in towns like this one. Pictures from this period show how quickly the car changed streets that had been built for horses and pedestrians.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[191-?]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,066 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126028

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