Touring Car in Front of General Store, circa 1915

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Artifact Overview

A touring car and a horse-drawn buggy are parked outside a general store in this mid-1910s photograph. Onlookers stare at the automobile. In this small unidentified town a car may have been a novelty, especially one with well-dressed tourists.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1915

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

P.1774.P.56

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Family of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.125 in
Width: 10 in

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