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The Boston and Cambridge new horse railroad / . – Antique Wall Art

The Boston and Cambridge new horse railroad / ., [1856] — antique engraving
The Boston and Cambridge new horse railroad / ., [1856]. Antique engraving 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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Ballou's Pictorial, a Boston illustrated weekly, ran this wood engraving of the Boston and Cambridge horse railroad in its June 7, 1856 issue, when horse-drawn streetcars were still a novelty in the region. Horsecars ran on iron rails laid into city streets and offered a smoother, more regular ride than the omnibuses they were replacing. The print shows the animals and the car that made the new service possible, and it stands as a record of how quickly urban transit was changing in the mid-1850s.

Created / published[1856]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1850-1860.Wood engravings 1850-1860.
NotesIllus. in: Ballou's pictorial (1856 June 7). Title and other information transcribed from unverified data in Pictorial Americana (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1955), p. 63.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,018 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107508

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