Lot of used cars, furniture billboard in background and new shack in which salesman lives. He came to Alexandria from Lake Providence, Louisiana, and says, "We've got whatever we ask for them here. They're selling fast. I sold thirteen my first week here."

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Lot of used cars, furniture billboard in background and new shack in which salesman lives. He came to Alexandria from Lake Providence, Louisiana, and says, "We've got whatever we ask for them here. They're selling fast. I sold thirteen my first week here."

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Summary

Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Temp. note: usf34batch6

We at GetArchive are exploring new methods of image metadata augmentation and verification. Our goal is to make it possible to find images on any topic. In particular, we are trying to verify and fix historic periodization. This collection is made of historic photographs of automobiles that look as if they were taken in the 1940s. The collection is made with aid of a neural image recognition network dealing with the whole image composition rather than with the car model - some cars may be dated incorrectly. Although, while this method is surprisingly good for the purpose of dating and tagging, a certain percentage of images (less than 8%) may not represent automobile, but other vehicle type or visually similar object. Naturally, our next step should be creating numerous datasets for a particular car years&models, but as of September 2022, we found no use to justify the effort.

date_range

Date

01/01/1940
place

Location

alexandria
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Source

Library of Congress
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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