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[Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: H&WHRR car #10 at Lathrop's, Asylum St.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: H&WHRR car #10 at Lathrop's, Asylum St.] — historic photograph
[Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: H&WHRR car #10 at Lathrop's, Asylum St.]. 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 [Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: H&WHRR car #10 at Lathrop's, Asylum St.], a historic photograph rich in period 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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Car No. 10 of the Hartford and Wethersfield Horse Railroad stands at Lathrop's on Asylum Street in Hartford, Connecticut, in a photograph dated to between late 1891 and mid-1892. At that time, horse-drawn streetcars ran on iron rails along many American city streets, pulled by teams that had to be fed, stabled and replaced daily. Electric trolleys were spreading quickly through the 1890s and soon made the horse car obsolete, so a view like this records street transit in its last years of dominance. It is a useful reminder of how much daily city travel depended on animal power.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesbetween Dec. 31, 1891 and June 28, 1892.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,148 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121768

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