Name/Title
City Auditorium Automobile Show Photo, c. 1920'sEntry/Object ID
P354.18024.374Description
City Auditorium Automobile Show Photo, c. 1920's. b/w. Photo of the floor area of the Auditorium taken from above. Floral Canopy rafters above cars parked underneath.
Original digital scan see History 20 CDContext
From Max Guenther - "I Pretty sure the Museum's photo (P354.18024.374) is the inaugural St Joseph Automobile Show in 1914. I previously researched two Artcrafts photos from the 1919 and 1920 show (I believe), and they definitely seemed later than this one.
1914 was the first SJ Auto Show, and I think they only lasted until 1921 (billed as the 8th annual show, but there was not a show in 1916). Beginning in 1919 the auto shows had a temporary balcony built around and above the auditorium floor to accommodate more cars. The Museum photo does not have one of these balconies, which makes it 1918 or before.
Max Guenther sent "a 1914 newspaper article which mentions cars arranged in “pergolas", as visible in this photo. This date would seem to be consistent with the cars in this photo, which look like earlier models than the 1920’s." We have attached these to the record for research purposes.
Updated by Sara WilsonMade/Created
Date made
1920Place
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
City AuditoriumRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Max HabeckerProvenance
Notes
Photographs taken in c. 1920's by Max Habecker, St. Joseph News-Press Photographer, affixed in photo album.
