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[Horse-drawn street railroad car, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[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 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Horse-drawn street railroad car, Washington, D.C.]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Horse-drawn street railroad car, Washington, D.C.]

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Washington's horse-drawn streetcars ran on iron rails laid down the city's avenues and streets for much of the late 1800s, before electric trolleys and then motor buses replaced them. This print shows one of those cars, pulled by a team of horses, and its caption card carries the tracing "Street RR," the shorthand used for a street railroad company. The card records no date, so the exact year remains unknown, but the setting places the scene in the decades when horse power was the standard way to move passengers through a growing capital. Animal-drawn transit like this was a common sight in American cities of that era, and the harness, track and open car are worth a close look.

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 scan1,536 × 1,211 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145323

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