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[Horse-drawn street railroad car in front of Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., 833 Broadway, Bridgeport, Conn.] – Vintage Photo Print

[Horse-drawn street railroad car in front of Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., 833 Broadway, Bridgeport, Conn.], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Horse-drawn street railroad car in front of Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., 833 Broadway, Bridgeport, Conn.], [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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[Horse-drawn street railroad car in front of Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., 833 Broadway, Bridgeport, Conn.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Horse-drawn street railroad car in front of Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., 833 Broadway, Bridgeport, Conn.]

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A horse-drawn streetcar stands on Broadway in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in front of the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, a sewing machine maker. Nathaniel Wheeler and Allen B. Wilson founded the firm in the 1850s, and it became one of the largest sewing machine manufacturers in the country. Horse-drawn street railways carried workers and shoppers through American cities from the 1860s until electric trolleys replaced them in the 1890s, so the scene shows urban transport in transition. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year remains uncertain.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesWittemann Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Factories; Geogr.; Street RR.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149307

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