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Mind your horse, Mister? – Historic Print

Mind your horse, Mister? — historic image
Mind your horse, Mister?. Historic image from the Horses collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic image of Mind your horse, Mister? brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

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A horse-drawn street scene with a wry title: "Mind your horse, Mister?" reads like a question a child or passerby might have called out to a man passing too close to a team or a saddled animal. The phrasing points to the busy, shared streets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when horses pulled delivery wagons, streetcars and private carriages alongside pedestrians with few formal traffic rules. Images like this one capture the everyday friction of that world, when a loose or unruly horse could be a real hazard and a mannerly warning was part of city life. Look closely at the figures and their clothing for clues to who shared the road.

Original scan1,251 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165705

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