[NYC Custom house. Automobiles, horse-drawn wagons and streetcars on street] – Vintage Wall Art
![[NYC Custom house. Automobiles, horse-drawn wagons and streetcars on street], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f5/f5c94ab3e8eb-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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[NYC Custom house. Automobiles, horse-drawn wagons and streetcars on street]
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Street traffic moves past the New York Custom House at Bowling Green in lower Manhattan, where motor cars, horse-drawn wagons and streetcars share the same roadway. Cass Gilbert's granite Beaux-Arts federal building was completed in 1907, so the mix of vehicles points to roughly the first decades of the twentieth century, when automobiles were spreading through city streets alongside older forms of transport. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year is uncertain, but the scene shows the transition in urban transportation as horses and motors competed for the same space.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Wittemann Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Custom Houses. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,162 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155310 |
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