Photograph of city street with railroad tracks and shops – Antique Photo Print
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This rare historic photograph captures Photograph of city street with railroad tracks and shops in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Photograph of city street with railroad tracks and shops
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Rails running down the middle of a city street, with shopfronts pressed close on either side, make this scene a study in how commerce and transportation shared the same ground. Streets like this were common in American towns from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, when rail lines often ran through the center of town and depots, freight yards and storefronts grew up around them. The record does not name the town or the shops, so the picture is best read as a view of everyday urban life of its period. Its place among the Books & Writers pages may hint at a bookseller, printer or writer's address along the street, but that link is not documented here.
| Original scan | 6,269 × 5,094 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 05229u gardner's photographic |
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