Street cleaning - Auto street cleaner. New York – Vintage Wall Art
![Street cleaning - Auto street cleaner. New York, [between 1907 and 1913] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d8/d80a2ab72b96-L.webp)
(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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Street cleaning - Auto street cleaner. New York 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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Street cleaning - Auto street cleaner. New York
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A self-propelled street cleaner at work on a New York City street marks this picture as a record of municipal machinery arriving in the early 1900s. It is dated between 1907 and 1913 and comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news photographs that documented city life in those years. Street cleaning had long relied on horse-drawn carts and hand brooms, so a motorized sweeper shows the city's gradual shift toward automotive equipment. The caption details come from old, unverified cards, so the exact date and location should be treated as approximate.
| Created / published | [between 1907 and 1913] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Trucks; NY--NYC--Misc.; NY--NYC--Views--1907-13; Street cleaning; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,042 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135785 |
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