Stone civic building with dome and horse-drawn carriage – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Stone civic building with dome and horse-drawn carriage, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Stone civic building with dome and horse-drawn carriage
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A stone civic building crowned by a dome, with a horse-drawn carriage moving past it, places this scene in a time when horses still handled most local transport. Public libraries and other civic buildings of this style were often raised in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when towns paid for substantial masonry structures as symbols of learning and local pride. The dome and heavy stonework signaled permanence, while the carriage shows how slowly the streets around such buildings changed before automobiles took over. The proportions of the façade and the everyday street life at its base are worth a closer look.
| Original scan | 5,572 × 4,500 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15396_CarnegieLibraryStJosephMissour |
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