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[Horse-drawn street railroad car, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Photo Print

[Horse-drawn street railroad car, Washington, D.C.], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Horse-drawn street railroad car, Washington, D.C.], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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 streetcar carried passengers along the rails of Washington, D.C., in a photograph whose caption card gives no date. Horsecar lines spread through the city in the decades after the Civil War, when they offered a smoother ride than omnibuses on paved streets. Each car needed a team of horses or mules, and the animals' labor and upkeep shaped the cost and pace of city travel. Electric trolleys replaced most of these lines in the 1890s. The card's subject tracings, "Street RR" and "Geogr.," suggest the image was filed under both urban transit and place.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Street RR; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,000 × 2,365 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145323

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