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[Horse-drawn wagons in front of Ladau Cab building beside railroad yards, St. Louis, Missouri] – Antique Photo Print

[Horse-drawn wagons in front of Ladau Cab building beside railroad yards, St. Louis, Missouri] — historic photograph
[Horse-drawn wagons in front of Ladau Cab building beside railroad yards, St. Louis, Missouri]. 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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[Horse-drawn wagons in front of Ladau Cab building beside railroad yards, St. Louis, Missouri] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Horse-drawn wagons in front of Ladau Cab building beside railroad yards, St. Louis, Missouri]

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The scene is anchored by the Ladau Cab building, which stands beside the railroad yards in St. Louis, with a line of horse-drawn wagons parked in front. The print is undated in the catalog, with only a "189-?" note indicating the 1890s as the likely period. By then St. Louis was a major rail and river freight center, and teams of horses still did much of the work of moving goods between depots and city businesses. The picture shows how closely that work depended on animal power, years before motor trucks took over the job.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[189-?]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,236 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123613

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