Bus Parade, King Street

Description:

Sepia photograph of a procession of the new bus line traveling south on King Street in celebration of the retiring of Charleston's streetcars. Paine shot the image from an elevated position near the corner of King and Beaufain Streets to capture the crowded street with several diagonally parked automobiles.
Photographer's notation on reverse records date and time along with his camera settings, "Parade of the New Bus line down King St Charleston S.C. The Trolley Cars are dead. Feb. 3 1938 Photo by M.B. Paine. 4x5 Speed Graphic Aeiss 16.5 Tessar Agfa Super Press Film B.S. 1:30 F11. 1/150 sec. Neg. O.K. Pyro. 10 mins 12.3 News Bro. Contr."

• Title: Bus Parade, King Street
• Photographer: Paine, Morton Brailsford, 1883-1940
• Date: February 3, 1938

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Morton Brailsford Paine Photographs
• Object Id: MK 9779

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