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[Blacksmith making a horseshoe] – Historic Print

[Blacksmith making a horseshoe] — historic photograph
[Blacksmith making a horseshoe]. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(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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[Blacksmith making a horseshoe] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A smith in a leather apron works a glowing bar on the anvil, shaping a horseshoe by hand with a hammer, the kind of daily task that once kept nearly every town and rural crossroads supplied with iron work. Photographed around 1909, when horses still pulled most farm wagons, delivery carts and streetcars in American cities, the scene captures a trade that depended on the animals it served. Farriers and blacksmiths were essential to keeping horses sound and working, and shops like this one were often the busiest and most sociable corners of a community. The image is a useful record of hand-forging just before motor vehicles began to replace the horse.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1909.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,074 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122803

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