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[Bird's-eye view of horse-drawn streetcar on M Street Bridge over Rock Creek] – Antique Wall Map

[Bird's-eye view of horse-drawn streetcar on M Street Bridge over Rock Creek], [between 1870 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Bird's-eye view of horse-drawn streetcar on M Street Bridge over Rock Creek], [between 1870 and 1920]. 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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Step back in time with [Bird's-eye view of horse-drawn streetcar on M Street Bridge over Rock Creek], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Bird's-eye view of horse-drawn streetcar on M Street Bridge over Rock Creek]

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The view looks down on the M Street Bridge as a horse-drawn streetcar crosses the span over Rock Creek, with the tracks and roadway laid out below the camera. The bridge linked the Georgetown neighborhood to the rest of Washington, so streetcars carrying passengers across the creek were a daily sight. Horse-drawn lines operated in the capital until electric cars gradually replaced them in the 1890s and early 1900s. The overhead angle makes the bridge's structure and the creek valley easy to read, and it shows how the streetcar, the horses and the traffic shared a narrow crossing.

Created / published[between 1870 and 1920]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1870-1920.
SubjectsBridges--Washington (D.C.)--1870-1920. Street railroads--Washington (D.C.)--1870-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,045 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163445

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