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[3 people in horse-drawn carriage and another man getting on the carriage] – Vintage Wall Art

[3 people in horse-drawn carriage and another man getting on the carriage], c1903. — historic photograph
[3 people in horse-drawn carriage and another man getting on the carriage], c1903.. 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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A window into the past: [3 people in horse-drawn carriage and another man getting on the carriage], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A man is stepping up into a horse-drawn carriage that already holds three passengers, a moment of everyday travel frozen in what appears to be a c1903 photoprint. The record names Curtis Publishing Co. as copyright holder, and its catalog number suggests a commercial series of views sold to the public. By the early 1900s, carriages like this were giving way to electric streetcars and the automobile, so scenes of ordinary riders and their horses now show a transportation system in transition. The record's location and identities are unverified, so the picture is best read as a window onto how people rode, dressed, and moved about at the time.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Curtis Publishing Co. No. 8341. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Carriages...; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,235 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144498

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