NO CAPTION

What's this gadget?

Date: 1923–1929
Collection: Harris & Ewing
Archive: Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type: photograph
Original size: 793 × 1,024 pixels

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Reason: Harris & Ewing collection, given to the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions.

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"NO CAPTION" (1923–1929). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:What%27s_this_gadget%3F_(LOC).jpg

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