Horse car, N.Y., 1908 – Historic Reproduction
(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 car, N.Y., 1908, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Horse car, N.Y., 1908
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Horse-drawn streetcars were still running in New York in 1908, a few years before electric trolleys and motor buses finally displaced them across the city. This print comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the large body of news photographs made by Bain News Service, a Manhattan agency that sold pictures to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century. The caption card that accompanied the negative is marked as unverified, so the exact street and conditions are not recorded, but the scene captures a transit system that was rapidly giving way to modern machines.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,108 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124501 |
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