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Victorian house with fruit stand and horse-drawn cart – Vintage Print

Victorian house with fruit stand and horse-drawn cart — historic image
Victorian house with fruit stand and horse-drawn cart. Historic image from the Fruit & Vegetable Labels collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This historic image of Victorian house with fruit stand and horse-drawn cart brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

Victorian house with fruit stand and horse-drawn cart

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A Victorian house, a fruit stand, and a horse-drawn cart make up the scene, and the stand is the detail that anchors the picture to everyday commerce. Fruit stands of this kind were a common sight at the edge of towns and along roads in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when produce moved mostly by wagon and cart and was sold close to where it grew. The pairing of a grand residence with a modest roadside stall shows how farm goods and domestic life sat side by side. The subject also connects to the gallery's fruit and vegetable label theme, since the crates and produce on display would have been the same products that crate labels were printed to sell.

Original scan6,720 × 5,110 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi
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