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The gentleman in this early automobile is likely a salesman for the Domestic Vacuum Cleaner Company. The automobile is a Maxwell, from about 1908 through 1910. The vehicle has a bulb horn, right-hand steering, brass headlights, gas lamps on the cowl, and the often-needed tool box on the running board. The Maxwell automobile was the forerunner of the Chrysler. There were not many automobiles in Monroe when this photograph was taken, but the automobile brought big changes to communities such as Monroe. Blacksmith shops were replaced with automobile repair shops, and people gained the ability to drive to work, and to shop some distance away from their communities. The location of the Domestic Vacuum Cleaner Company is not known, but it may refer to the vacuum that James Kirby developed in 1906, which he referred to as the "Domestic Cyclone." There was a Domestic Sewing Machine Company which sold sewing machines, located at 110 East Third Street in Middletown; it was operated by Abraham G. Clendenin.</div>
28 July 1913<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1913-07-28T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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