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[Street railroad and horse-drawn wagon on main street of Palmyra, Pennsylvania (?)] – Historic Photograph Print

[Street railroad and horse-drawn wagon on main street of Palmyra, Pennsylvania (?)] — historic photograph
[Street railroad and horse-drawn wagon on main street of Palmyra, Pennsylvania (?)]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Street railroad and horse-drawn wagon on main street of Palmyra, Pennsylvania (?)] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Street railroad and horse-drawn wagon on main street of Palmyra, Pennsylvania (?)]

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The tracks running down the middle of this main street mark it as a street railway, while a horse-drawn wagon shares the roadway beside them. The catalog record places the scene in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, but flags that identification with a question mark, so the town is best treated as likely rather than confirmed. Around 1900, many small American towns were laying track for streetcars, first pulled by horses or mules and then increasingly electrified, which changed how people moved through downtown. The picture shows that transition at street level, with older and newer forms of transport side by side.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[ca. 1900]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119932

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