One of Willemstad's odd little street cars on the chief residence street, Curaçao, W.I. – Vintage Wall Art
(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: One of Willemstad's odd little street cars on the chief residence street, Curaçao, W.I., 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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One of Willemstad's odd little street cars on the chief residence street, Curaçao, W.I.
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Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean, is the setting for this 1904 card, and its most unusual feature is the small street car that runs down the town's chief residence street. The card was issued by H.C. White Co., a publisher known for travel stereographs, and its paired images were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect that was popular with armchair travelers at the time. The record gives little more detail about the street itself, but the view offers a glimpse of an early street railway in a colonial port town.
| Created / published | 1904 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 7836. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Street-railroads; Curacao--Willenstad--1904; Photog. I.; Street scenes--1904; Gegor.; Shelf. Curacao = [illegible]. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 790 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139902 |
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