Streetcars, Plymouth, Massachusetts, circa 1890
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Artifact Overview
Streetcars offered a convenient, practical, and affordable way to get around cities. Electric streetcars like these -- which operated in Plymouth, Massachusetts -- became common as cities built power stations in the late 1800s. They could carry more passengers and were cheaper and cleaner to operate than their horse-drawn predecessors.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1890
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.188.16875
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
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