Strikers storming horse-drawn car, Philadelphia – Antique 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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Step back in time with Strikers storming horse-drawn car, Philadelphia, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Strikers storming horse-drawn car, Philadelphia
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Unlike the electric trolleys and motor vehicles that appear often in the Bain collection, this scene centers on a horse-drawn car in Philadelphia. The record gives no date, and its title comes from caption information the Bain News Service wrote on the negatives, which has not been independently verified. The setting suggests a street railway labor dispute, since strikes of that kind often brought crowds into confrontation with cars run by replacement crews. By the early twentieth century, most city streetcar lines had switched from horses to electric power, so a horse-drawn vehicle at the center of such a clash is worth noticing.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 939 × 709 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5780 |
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