Electric Streetcar and Horse-Drawn Vehicles on City Street in Bangor, Maine, circa 1885

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Artifact Overview

Horse-drawn drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and an electric streetcar share a street lined with shops in this photograph of Bangor, a prosperous nineteenth-century lumber port on Maine's Penobscot River.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1885

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.188.16871

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10.25 in

Inscriptions

Written on front of print: "Bangor, Maine."