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[A Virginia vegetable cart] – Vintage Print

[A Virginia vegetable cart], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[A Virginia vegetable cart], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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A horse-drawn vegetable cart, likely in Richmond, Virginia, stands out on this glass negative for an unusual reason: the exposure appears to be doubled, so buildings seem to overlap the trees behind them. The negative is also broken and taped to a second sheet of glass, a sign of how fragile these plates were after decades in storage. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued photographs and color prints of American towns and scenery in the years around 1900 to 1910, produced many street scenes like this one. Peddlers with wagons of produce were a common sight in Southern cities then, and the image offers a glimpse of how food reached households before supermarkets.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Negative appears to be a double exposure; buildings overlap trees. Possibly in Richmond. Negative broken and taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043235. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCarts & wagons. Vegetables. Food vendors.United States--Virginia.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 779 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70188

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