Gladys and a Blow-out!

Photographer: Unknown
Date: c.1915
Material: Gelatin silver print
Classification: Photographs
Collection: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: sheet: 2 3/8 × 3 3/8 in. (6 × 8.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter J. Cohen in honor of Laura T. Cohen
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 63:2018

NOTES

Henry Ford’s mass-produced Model T, introduced in 1908, made cars affordable for the middle class. They became extensions of owners’ personalities and were the subjects of pictures just as often as the outside scenery. With many roads unpaved through the 1920s, flat tires were a common affair. This print of a woman in a racing outfit has the lively inscription “Gladys and a blow-out!” on the back.

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