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Street car [horsedrawn] and passengers, Monte Cristy – Historic Photo Reproduction

Street car [horsedrawn] and passengers, Monte Cristy, [between 1904 and 1905] — historic photograph
Street car [horsedrawn] and passengers, Monte Cristy, [between 1904 and 1905]. 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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Step back in time with Street car [horsedrawn] and passengers, Monte Cristy, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Street car [horsedrawn] and passengers, Monte Cristy

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A horsedrawn streetcar carries its passengers through Monte Cristi, a port on the northwest coast of what is now the Dominican Republic. The caption card's tags include bananas and police, which hint at the fruit trade moving through the harbor and at an official presence in the scene, though the card does not describe either in detail. Horse-drawn lines like this one were a common way to move people and goods around towns of this size in the early 1900s, before electric trams spread. The record comes from an older caption card and has not been independently verified, so the details should be read with that in mind.

Created / published[between 1904 and 1905]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesHanna-McCormick Family Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Bananas; Street railways; Police.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,076 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145939

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