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[Street scene with horses, undertaking sign on building bearing Masonic insignia, Boise, Idaho] – Vintage Wall Art

[Street scene with horses, undertaking sign on building bearing Masonic insignia, Boise, Idaho], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Street scene with horses, undertaking sign on building bearing Masonic insignia, Boise, Idaho], [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Street scene with horses, undertaking sign on building bearing Masonic insignia, Boise, Idaho]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Street scene with horses, undertaking sign on building bearing Masonic insignia, Boise, Idaho]

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Few Boise street scenes combine an undertaker's sign with the square and compass of the Freemasons on the same building, and that pairing is what sets this view apart. Horses fill the street, a reminder that local business ran on animal power well before automobiles reached town. Boise became Idaho's territorial capital in 1864 and the state capital when Idaho entered the Union in 1890, so the city was growing quickly during the decades when pictures like this were made. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year remains unknown.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. 538. Wittemann Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Freemasons; Stores...; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,095 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140728

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