P1884

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Details

ID Number

P1884

Item Type

slide

Item Name

Image

Title

Horse Car on Sandwich Street / Voiture à cheval sur la rue Sandwich

Title (Fre)

Voiture à cheval sur la rue Sandwich

Date

ca 1880

Measurements

2x2c+

Description

Black and white photograph looking East on Sandwich Street between Mill and Detroit; the Dominion Tavern is on the left of the photograph and there are people and horses standing in front of the building; in the centre of the photograph is the horse car heading toward the camera; other buildings are partially visible on the right side of the photograph, obscured by a tree in the foreground; from the 1870s, Sandwich and Windsor were linked by horse cars operating over a street railway laid out on unpaved roadways.

Place made

Canada - Ontario - Windsor

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subjects

Buildings / Immeubles

Carts & wagons / Charrettes & chariots

Dominion House / Maison Dominion

Horses / Chevaux

Hotels / Hôtels

Men / Hommes

Sandwich St. / Rue Sandwich

Streets / Rues

Trees / Arbres

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