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The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
Collier's Automobile Number, Poster by Edward Penfield
Edward Penfield (1866-1925) · Collier's Weekly, Automobile Number, 1903
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
Edward Penfield's 1903 colour lithograph for the Automobile Number of Collier's, 41 by 29 cm.
Why it matters
Collier's was a general-interest weekly founded in 1888. A special number on the automobile in 1903 caught the car while it was still news.
What to notice
The car is the novelty, and the drawing treats it as the thing everyone on the sheet is looking at.
The new machine, ten years into the poster age.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- Edward Penfield (1866-1925)
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Collier's Weekly, Automobile Number, 1903
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2006675100
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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