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[New York City]: Street sweeper and handcart – Antique Photo Print

[New York City]: Street sweeper and handcart, c1896. — historic photograph
[New York City]: Street sweeper and handcart, c1896.. Historic photograph from the New York City 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 [New York City]: Street sweeper and handcart. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[New York City]: Street sweeper and handcart

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A lone street sweeper pushing a handcart gives this c1896 view of New York City its everyday character. The photograph is credited to Elizabeth Alice Austen, the Staten Island photographer known for her street scenes, though the date comes from an old caption card and has not been verified. In the mid-1890s, the city's street cleaning was undergoing a major overhaul under Colonel George E. Waring Jr., who dressed sweepers in white uniforms and organized their work more systematically. Hand-pushed carts like this one were a familiar sight on city streets of the period.

Created / publishedc1896.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by Elizabeth Alice Austen. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Carts...; Street cleaning; NY--NYC--Misc.--1896; NY--NYC--Views--1896; Carts & wagons; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,256 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135782

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