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[Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: Hartford St. Railway - Farmington Ave.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: Hartford St. Railway - Farmington Ave.] — historic photograph
[Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: Hartford St. Railway - Farmington Ave.]. 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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[Conn. - Hartford - horse-drawn street railways: Hartford St. Railway - Farmington Ave.] 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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Hartford's horse-drawn streetcars ran on iron rails laid down the middle of the city's streets, and this view captures one of them on Farmington Avenue in the early 1890s, sometime between the end of 1891 and mid-1892. Farmington Avenue was a residential and increasingly fashionable route running west from the city center, so the line served a growing district of homes and businesses. Before electric trolleys spread through American cities in the late 1880s and 1890s, teams of horses or mules pulled these cars, and a single line might need dozens of animals working in shifts. The photograph is a useful record of that transitional moment, when the horse was still the engine of urban transit.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesbetween Dec. 31, 1891 and June 28, 1892.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,118 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121769

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