Horse drawn vehicles

[Chucktin]

Horse-drawn funeral hearse with driver, circa 1900
(courtesy of Neil Regan Funeral Home, Scranton, PA)

Most noteworthy in this picture are the crochet fly blankets on the horses

A white hearse?

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[Chucktin]

Popcorn and Peanut Vendor
Popcorn John, Cadillac, Michigan, 1920s and 1930s.

This picture makes me recall the early 50s and the vegetable wagon that would come around through the alleys where we lived in Cicero Illinois. Horse was dark brown and the wagon was closed but overall the size was about the same. The driver would call out something like "Vetables, green Vetables" in a thick accent.

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[Aunt Bea]

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Meanderer]

Horse drawn vehicle used to transport compressed gas in portable containers in the 19th century.

 

[NancyNGA]

Dining out...?

 

[Pappy]

 

[Chucktin]

Dining out...?

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Hmm, nothing but a canvas sheet for the (Conestoga?) wagon-cover. I remember using canvas tents in the 50s and being surprised at how they withstood the rain. I supposed the canvas was good until it wasn't and then it was miserable travelling and being wet.

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[NancyNGA]

Treating for mosquitoes (malaria prevention). Panama Canal construction, 1905

 

[Big Horn]

The scene is likely in Southern New England.

The men and horses are laboring in the frozen water business, as it was then called. Ships carried cargoes of ice from from Boston to destinations as distant as Bombay where the ice was stored in wooden buildings and packed with sawdust. It would remain frozen for months in the hottest weather. As more American waters became polluted, Scandinavian companies took over the European trade and American companies had to go farther from cities.

There are certain ice tools whose purpose is unknown today. If you have anything of that sort, please post it.

There is a delightful book on this little-known business of yesteryear; I recommend it.

https://smile.amazon.com/Frozen-Wat...8&qid=1517819239&sr=1-1&keywords=frozen+water

 

[Meanderer]

Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894
"By the late 1800s, large cities all around the world were “drowning in horse manure". In order for these cities to function, they were dependent on thousands of horses for the transport of both people and goods".

 

[NancyNGA]

...The men and horses are laboring in the frozen water business, as it was then called...

Ice Harvesting, Monroe County, PA, 1919 (silent film)

 

[Aunt Bea]

Ice Harvesting, Monroe County, PA, 1919 (silent film)

Great video!!!

"The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter!"

 

[Big Horn]

"The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter!"

That's how it should be.

 

[retiredtraveler]

DW and I have done a lot of biking in Ohio, Amish country, and always enjoy seeing the buggies.

 

[Aunt Bea]

That's how it should be.

Said the rich man to the poor man, LOL!!!

 

[Rainee]

Great lot of photos thanks for sharing ..

 

[Meanderer]

Ice Harvesting, Monroe County, PA, 1919 (silent film)

What a treasure this video is, Nancy, I liked seeing the men and horses putting on the feed bag, and dressing warmly! The whole operation was captured, and the workers were shown close up. The horses are beautiful creatures! Thanks for finding it!

 

[Pappy]

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Meanderer]

Freight Wagon Arriving in Vernal, Utah

 

[Aunt Bea]

Freight Wagon Arriving in Vernal, Utah

Great photo!

I guess we haven't come as far as we would like to believe.

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[NancyNGA]

Eighteen seater pram, London, 1925