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[New Orleans milk cart, New Orleans, Louisiana] – Historic Print

[New Orleans milk cart, New Orleans, Louisiana], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[New Orleans milk cart, New Orleans, Louisiana], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the New Orleans 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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A window into the past: [New Orleans milk cart, New Orleans, Louisiana], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[New Orleans milk cart, New Orleans, Louisiana]

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A horse-drawn milk cart rolls past modest houses in New Orleans, captured on an 8 by 10 inch glass negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company sometime between 1900 and 1910. The company, based in Detroit, sold views of American towns, landscapes and everyday scenes, and its photographers traveled widely with large-format cameras to document them. Milk delivery by cart was a common sight in American cities before motor trucks and bottling plants took over the trade, and the subject offers a glimpse of the neighborhood routines that kept urban households supplied. The negative reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 665 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033073. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCarts & wagons. Dairying. Dwellings.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66415

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