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Going in Style: 1920

Submitted by Dave on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 1:05pm.
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        We'll leave it to our erudite commenters to elaborate on the party taking place in the background, a sort of Beaux-Arts photobomb involving a naked lady and a horse. Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "H.E.F. in Packard at L.O.C." National Photo proprietor Herbert E. French in an enormous touring car (note the multiple lamps and lanterns) outside the Library of Congress, the eventual repository for his company's vast archive of photographs. 8x6 inch glass negative. View full size.

        We'll leave it to our erudite commenters to elaborate on the party taking place in the background, a sort of Beaux-Arts photobomb involving a naked lady and a horse.

Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "H.E.F. in Packard at L.O.C." National Photo proprietor Herbert E. French in an enormous touring car (note the multiple lamps and lanterns) outside the Library of Congress, the eventual repository for his company's vast archive of photographs. 8x6 inch glass negative. View full size.

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A fine facade, indeed

Submitted by BigAl42 on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 5:28am.

On a spring day in 2013

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Party at the Library, actually

Submitted by LaurenF on Wed, 01/21/2015 - 3:23pm.

What you're seeing in the background is the front of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building, with the Neptune fountain by sculptor Roland Hinton Perry. It's very educational for the kiddies, if they're interested in anatomy.

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Love the handlebar moustaches

Submitted by lindab on Wed, 01/21/2015 - 2:01pm.

on the dolphins. And look at the arms on that dame--I wouldn't arm wrestle her for money!

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Juvenile Delinquents

Submitted by Horace T. Water on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 6:17pm.

Looks like some street punks swiped his hubcap. Hooligans!

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Beaux-Arts Candy

Submitted by Paul A on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 5:04pm.

What a façade and car! But what really caught my attention is the horn that is both electric claxon and air-reed horn. I guess it's backup for those who can't yell loud enough from an open car.

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Allegorical Sculpture

Submitted by Solo on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 2:53pm.

Of course it's the famous "Wisdom Inspired By Music While Beauty Flogs a Dead Horse," sometimes attributed to the elder Saint-Gaudens but really executed by an anonymous but decidedly rebellious disciple of Henry Moore.

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More than a century old now

Submitted by Larc on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 2:23pm.

The Packard appears to be a 1914 Series 4-48.

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