Country images you don't see much anymore

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Traveling photographers
On wagon: "C.R. Monroe, Traveling Photographer."
(This explains where a lot of old pictures of my relatives came from. :))

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"Three photographer's wagons, two owned by C.R. Monroe and the other by N.L. Ellis, in front of tents in the countryside. Two men and a woman are posed standing by a chair in which a dog is sitting. On the right is a woman mounted on a horse. The man and the woman by the chair may be C.R. Monroe and his wife, and the woman on the horse may be their daughter. The man on the far left may be N.L. Ellis. Three other horses are tethered on the far right in front of a tent".

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Meanderer said:
".... The man and the woman by the chair may be C.R. Monroe and his wife, and the woman on the horse may be their daughter. The man on the far left may be N.L. Ellis. ...
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If that's true, and Ellis and Monroe are both in the picture, then I wonder who took the picture? :eewwk: Another mystery. (Just kidding! :))
 
I was thinking about the things that we used to do to get ready for winter when I was a kid.

We always used to bank the side of the house to help insulate it against the winter wind. When I was real young my father would drive some fence posts and construct a sort of fence about 18 inches from the house and we would pack that space with maple leaves raked from the lawn. When we got older and were not such enthusiastic leaf collectors he would buy a load of spoiled hay bales and stack them three high along the side of the house with a fence post driven every few feet to hold them in place. I was surprised that this is the only image I could find of a house that had been banked for the winter.
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We also used to put up sections of snow fence, similar to this, in an effort control the blowing and drifting snow. Some years the discussions over exactly where to put the fence for maximum benefit took longer than erecting the fence.

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That's a good one Bea. It reminds me of our trips out west (in the summer). First time we had seen snow fences.

Alaska (not my picture)
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Love the thread Nancy, found this one when I googled. Also, when my brother and sister were teens, they worked to move irrigation pipes in Lookingglass Oregon.

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I've been reading about covered bridges.

Here is an old timer, long gone, from Jack's Reef New York.

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Here is a modern example built in 2005 at Booneville NY.

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