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The Hamburg Trolley, Hamburg, N.Y. – Antique Photo Print

The Hamburg Trolley, Hamburg, N.Y., [between 1890 and 1910] — historic photograph
The Hamburg Trolley, Hamburg, N.Y., [between 1890 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Trolleys & Streetcars 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: The Hamburg Trolley, Hamburg, N.Y., 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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The Hamburg Trolley, Hamburg, N.Y.

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Hamburg, a town in Erie County south of Buffalo, New York, is the setting, and the title places the focus on its trolley rather than a street or building. The picture dates from the years when electric streetcars were spreading through small American towns, replacing horse-drawn and steam lines and linking outlying communities to nearby cities. The catalog record does not name the photographer or the crew, so the exact date and the car's route remain uncertain. Even so, the image offers a useful glimpse of how quickly street railways changed local travel around 1900.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1910]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1910.
NotesNo. 23.
SubjectsStreet railroads--New York (State)--Hamburg (Town)--1890-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,030 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161531

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