The touring car of the future
Subject(s): Country life, Recreational vehicles, Tourists, Transportation--Passenger traffic
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A huge triple-decker touring vehicle, with “Dining Hall, Kitchen, Servants Hall, High Finance and Recuperation Apartment, State Rooms, Hair Dressing Studio, Gossip Den, Nursery, [and] “to Gymnasium on the roof”, travels down a dirt road in the countryside.
Comments and Context
Albert Levering’s detailed and imaginative centerspread cartoon in Puck reprised a theme frequently used by the magazine’s former star Frederick Burr Opper in years past — speculations and projections, like “The Apartment House Of the Future,” “The Street Car Of the Future,” “The Summer Resort Of the Future,” etc.
Such cartoons, at the time, were humorous treatments of logical extensions: population growth, the encroachment of commercial advertising, and such. Today it is clearer that such cartoons reflect also the growing prosperity of average Americans, and the fruits of leisure time and increased popular pastimes.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905-06-28
Creator(s)
Period
U.S. President – 2nd Term (March 1905-February 1909)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Page Count
1
Record Type
Image
Resource Type
Rights
These images are presented through a cooperative effort between the Library of Congress and Dickinson State University. No known restrictions on publication.
Citation
Cite this Record
Chicago:
The touring car of the future. [June 28, 1905]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o278115. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Levering, Albert, 1869-1929. The touring car of the future. [28 Jun. 1905]. Image.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. August 3, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o278115.
APA:
Levering, Albert, 1869-1929., [1905, June 28]. The touring car of the future.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o278115.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. August 3, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs.
APA:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-prints-and-photographs.
