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1st Battery U.S. Army troops on horse-back in front of City Hall, New York – Antique Wall Art

1st Battery U.S. Army troops on horse-back in front of City Hall, New York, 1909 — historic photograph
1st Battery U.S. Army troops on horse-back in front of City Hall, New York, 1909. 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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This historic photograph of 1st Battery U.S. Army troops on horse-back in front of City Hall, New York brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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1st Battery U.S. Army troops on horse-back in front of City Hall, New York

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Mounted soldiers of the 1st Battery, U.S. Army, are posed before New York's City Hall in this 1909 glass negative, with the building's domed Beaux-Arts face and the surrounding downtown streets behind them. In 1909 horses still did much of the Army's hauling and mounted work, so a picture like this shows a military tradition that was already giving way to motorized transport. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a news photo service that supplied pictures to newspapers. The title comes from the service's own caption data, which has not been independently verified, so the exact occasion for the troops' visit to City Hall is not recorded.

Created / published1909
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan938 × 705 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-5393

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