Man with Horse-Drawn Delivery Wagon, circa 1890
THF210173 / Man with Horse-Drawn Delivery Wagon, circa 1890
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Artifact Overview
Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867, and people soon preferred these photographic prints on cardboard stock to the earlier, smaller cartes-de-visite. American commonly collected and exchanged cabinet photographs through the early 1900s. This example, made by C. W. Lowry around 1890, shows a man near a horse-drawn "Parcel Delivery" wagon.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Cabinet photograph
Subject Date
circa 1890
Creators
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
98.94.15
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Mounting
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4.313 in
Width: 6.5 in
Inscriptions
obverse, printed:
C. W. Lowry
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