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Progress of the Roads: 1900 - the horseless carriage – Historic Reproduction

Progress of the Roads: 1900 - the horseless carriage — historic photograph
Progress of the Roads: 1900 - the horseless carriage. 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: Progress of the Roads: 1900 - the horseless 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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This photograph reproduces a painting titled *Progress of the Roads: 1900 - the horseless carriage*, which imagines the moment when a motorcar first appeared on a rural road still built for wagons and carriage horses. Its catalog tracings point to blacksmiths, road signs, and Ohio, though the record's dating and subject details are unverified. Around 1900, automobiles were rare and unreliable, and they frightened horses and shared the road with a transportation system built around animal power. The image captures a turning point, when the work of the blacksmith and the horse-drawn carriage began giving way to the motor age.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[between 1939 and 1940]
SubjectsPhoto of painting, by Public Roads Admin. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Auto.--1916; Auto.--1925; Auto.--1900; Blacksmiths--; Signs & sign-boards; Roads; Transportation; Ohio--Misc.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,181 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135812

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