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[Man on bicycle on street, Washington, D.C.; horse-drawn streecar in background] – Vintage Wall Art

[Man on bicycle on street, Washington, D.C.; horse-drawn streecar in background], [between 1885 and 1895] — historic photograph
[Man on bicycle on street, Washington, D.C.; horse-drawn streecar in background], [between 1885 and 1895]. Historic photograph from the Bicycles 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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[Man on bicycle on street, Washington, D.C.; horse-drawn streecar in background] 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 rider on a bicycle passes a horse-drawn streetcar on a Washington, D.C. street, a pairing that captures the city's transportation mix in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The record dates the image to between 1885 and 1895, when safety bicycles were spreading through American cities while horse cars still carried many urban passengers. Its round format identifies it as a Kodak photoprint, a style the company popularized in that period, and the catalog notes that the date and other details come from an old caption card and have not been verified.

Created / published[between 1885 and 1895]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesCircular Kodak photoprint. No. 227. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Bicycles; Street railroads.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,498 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147616

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