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[Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: Hartford St. Railway - Farmington Ave. - Parkville car #73] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: Hartford St. Railway - Farmington Ave. - Parkville car #73] — historic photograph
[Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: Hartford St. Railway - Farmington Ave. - Parkville car #73]. 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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Car No. 73 of the Hartford Street Railway, bound for the Parkville section along Farmington Avenue, dates to a short window between the end of 1891 and the summer of 1892. Horse-drawn cars like this one carried passengers along city streets on rails set into the pavement, showing how completely urban travel depended on animal power at the time. Within a few years, electric trolleys began replacing many such lines across American cities, so the scene captures street transportation just before a major change.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesbetween Dec. 31, 1891 and June 28, 1892.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,147 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121770

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