A carriage drawn by two horses – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A carriage drawn by two horses
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A carriage pulled by a matched pair of horses is the whole subject here, with no street scene, rider, or landmark to anchor it, so the picture rests on the turnout itself: the harness, the vehicle, and the animals' bearing. Around 1904, a carriage drawn by two horses was a common sight in American towns and on country roads, when horse-drawn transport still carried passengers, goods, and families before the automobile became widespread. The print is a photoprint, a process that produced paper images from photographic negatives, and it bears a copyright notice in the name of F. Walker. The caption card that accompanied it is unverified, so the date and attribution are best read as the collection's working information rather than settled fact.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by F. Walker. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,209 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106219 |
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