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Traffic on State Street, Chicago, U.S.A. =Trafico en la Calle State, Chicago, E.U.A. – Vintage Photo Print

Traffic on State Street, Chicago, U.S.A. =Trafico en la Calle State, Chicago, E.U.A., Washington, D.C. : J.F. Jarvis, publisher, c1893. — historic photograph
Traffic on State Street, Chicago, U.S.A. =Trafico en la Calle State, Chicago, E.U.A., Washington, D.C. : J.F. Jarvis, publisher, c1893.. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Traffic on State Street, Chicago, U.S.A. =Trafico en la Calle State, Chicago, E.U.A.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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State Street in Chicago was already the city's busiest commercial thoroughfare when this stereograph was taken, and the card's bilingual title, with its Spanish line beneath the English, suggests it was meant for a broad market. Street traffic of the 1890s was a mix of horse-drawn wagons, streetcars and pedestrians, all competing for the same narrow roadway, and the crowding visible here captures the congestion that city planners and merchants were trying to solve. Stereographs like this one were viewed through a special lens so that two nearly identical photographs fused into a single image with depth, letting viewers feel as though they stood in the middle of the scene.

Created / publishedWashington, D.C. : J.F. Jarvis, publisher, c1893.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900.
Notes37398Y U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsTraffic congestion--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900. State Street (Chicago, Ill.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178676

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