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Horse drawn carriages in Central Park, New York City – Historic Print

Horse drawn carriages in Central Park, New York City, n/a — historic photograph
Horse drawn carriages in Central Park, New York City, n/a. 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 Horse drawn carriages in Central Park, New York City, 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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Horse drawn carriages in Central Park, New York City

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Horse-drawn carriages were once a common sight along the park drives of Central Park, and this glass negative captures that routine city scene. It comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the large body of pictures made by the Bain News Service, a wire photo agency that supplied images to newspapers in New York and beyond in the early twentieth century. The record gives no exact date, and its title comes from caption cards written by the agency rather than from verified information, so the precise year and the particular carriages remain uncertain. Still, the image is worth noticing for its glimpse of how people traveled and took leisure in the park before automobiles crowded out most of the horses.

Created / publishedn/a
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 scan941 × 711 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-1381

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