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[Child seated in toy automobile] – Vintage Print

[Child seated in toy automobile], [between 1909 and 1923] — historic photograph
[Child seated in toy automobile], [between 1909 and 1923]. 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 young child sits behind the wheel of a toy automobile in this glass negative, a playful scene from the years when the motorcar was still a novelty on many American streets. The picture is part of the National Photo Company Collection, the archive of a commercial studio that documented Washington, D.C., and its surroundings in the early twentieth century. Glass plates like this one were the standard medium of the period, and the record notes that streaks and other blemishes may appear from the natural deterioration of the original coatings.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1923]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Date from negatives in same range Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,270 × 4,227 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-247872

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