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A young mechanic fixing his auto – Historic Print

A young mechanic fixing his auto, c1911 June 19. — historic photograph
A young mechanic fixing his auto, c1911 June 19.. 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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Step back in time with A young mechanic fixing his auto, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A young mechanic bent over the engine of his automobile sets this stereograph apart from the many images of motorcars on the board, since its subject is the labor of keeping early cars running rather than the machines in showroom polish. The card was issued by Underwood & Underwood, a firm that produced large numbers of stereo views for home viewers in the early twentieth century, and its caption tracings point to automobile mechanics and children as its themes. Around 1911, car repair was still a fresh trade, with owners often doing their own tinkering with hand tools and few garages offering specialized service. The record notes that its data come from an old caption card and have not been verified, so the exact location and the boy's identity remain unknown.

Created / publishedc1911 June 19.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesJ156715 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. U-117589. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Auto-mechanics; Carts; Children.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 909 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144743

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