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[Two boys on horses at corner of 14th St. and I St. N.W., Washington, D.C. View looking east on I St., Franklin Square on left, stores on 14th St. on right] – Historic Reproduction

[Two boys on horses at corner of 14th St. and I St. N.W., Washington, D.C. View looking east on I St., Franklin Square on left, stores on 14th St. on right], [between 1885 and 1895] — historic photograph
[Two boys on horses at corner of 14th St. and I St. N.W., Washington, D.C. View looking east on I St., Franklin Square on left, stores on 14th St. on right], [between 1885 and 1895]. 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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A window into the past: [Two boys on horses at corner of 14th St. and I St. N.W., Washington, D.C. View looking east on I St., Franklin Square on left, stores on 14th St. on right], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Two boys on horses at corner of 14th St. and I St. N.W., Washington, D.C. View looking east on I St., Franklin Square on left, stores on 14th St. on right]

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Two boys on horseback fill the foreground at the corner of 14th and I Streets Northwest, with Franklin Square opening up on the left and shops lining 14th Street on the right. The picture belongs to a series of small Kodak card photographs from the mid-1880s to the mid-1890s, when inexpensive hand cameras let amateurs record everyday street life outside the studio. Downtown Washington at the time mixed government offices, hotels and retail, and a scene like this shows how children and horses shared the busy streets before automobiles arrived.

Created / published[between 1885 and 1895]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreKodak card photographs 1880-1900.Photographic prints 1880-1900.
NotesNo. 991.
SubjectsChildren--1880-1900. Horseback riding--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,284 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178524

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