U.S. Army mule team & wagon – Historic Photo Reproduction
![U.S. Army mule team & wagon, [between 1909 and 1940] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/56/5612bc4a460c-L.webp)
(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 rare historic photograph captures U.S. Army mule team & wagon in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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U.S. Army mule team & wagon
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A team of mules hitched to a wagon is the subject here, and the record attributes the caption to the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio that produced a large body of commercial views of the city and its surroundings in the early twentieth century. The negative is a small glass plate, the format the company relied on before film became standard, and its date is recorded only as a span between 1909 and 1940. The glass shows streaks and blemishes from the deterioration of its original coating, a common condition in plates of this age. Pictures of Army transport animals like these document a period when mules and wagons still moved supplies alongside motor vehicles.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch six. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,971 × 4,272 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-257379 |
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