Italy, Rome. Drivers sleeping in their carts – Vintage Photo Print
![Italy, Rome. Drivers sleeping in their carts, [between 1908 and 1919] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e2/e251eed11e49-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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Italy, Rome. Drivers sleeping in their carts 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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Italy, Rome. Drivers sleeping in their carts
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Drivers dozing in their carts on a Roman street give this view its character: the sleeping men, not the monuments, are the subject. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a commercial firm that sent photographers across Europe and the United States to record everyday scenes for sale as postcards and prints in the years before 1919. Its glass negative, a gift from Herbert A. French in 1947, is now in the Library of Congress. Faint streaks and blemishes across the glass come from the coating breaking down over time, so they are part of the negative's physical history rather than errors in the scene.
| Created / published | [between 1908 and 1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch five. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,960 × 4,267 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-249331 |
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