Work Horse Parade, 5/30/09 – 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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Work Horse Parade, 5/30/09 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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Work Horse Parade, 5/30/09
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A parade of working horses, dated May 30, 1909, is the subject here, though the record notes that its title comes from unverified Bain News Service data. Such events were common in American cities in the early twentieth century, when horses still pulled delivery wagons and coal carts through busy streets. Parades like this one, often organized by humane societies, celebrated well-kept draft animals and encouraged owners to groom, shoe, and decorate their teams. George Grantham Bain's news photographs from these years capture how much of urban life still ran on horsepower before motor trucks replaced it.
| Created / published | 5/30/09. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,203 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40647 |
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