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Train tracks and horse-drawn carts on 11th Ave. , New York City – Historic Print

Train tracks and horse-drawn carts on 11th Ave. , New York City, n/a — historic photograph
Train tracks and horse-drawn carts on 11th Ave. , 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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Train tracks and horse-drawn carts on 11th Ave. , New York City

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Few streets in Manhattan were as hazardous as 11th Avenue, where freight trains once ran at street level along the far West Side. Until the elevated line now known as the High Line opened in the 1930s, trains shared the avenue with wagons, trucks and pedestrians, and mounted men known as the West Side cowboys rode ahead of locomotives, waving flags to warn people off the tracks. The Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency active in New York in the early twentieth century, made the picture. The record's title comes from an unverified caption, and no date is recorded.

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 scan940 × 704 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-4126

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