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[Streetcar safety demonstration, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Streetcar safety demonstration, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1915 and 1930] — historic photograph
[Streetcar safety demonstration, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1915 and 1930]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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[Streetcar safety demonstration, Detroit, Mich.]

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A streetcar carrying a sign for the New Detroit Opera House anchors this view, which the cataloger titled as a safety demonstration. The record does not say who staged it, but two close variant glass negatives from the Detroit Publishing Company survive, and the firm photographed the city's streets and transit in the years before it wound down in the 1920s. Street railway safety campaigns of that era aimed to teach pedestrians and motorists to keep clear of trolleys, which were a common source of injuries on crowded city streets.

Created / published[between 1915 and 1930]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesNegatives are close variants. Title devised by cataloger. Probably related to negatives D420-2700 to D420-2706. New Detroit Opera House" on sign on streetcar. "15165" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2701. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStreet railroads. Safety. Traffic accidents.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 683 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77270

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