Photograph
Omnibus Line in Front of Park Hotel
| View from the street of a man holding the reins for a team of two horses and sitting in the driver's seat of the Omnibus Line in front of the Park Hotel on Carroll Street. A group of men stand on the porch steps. "This omnibus was driven by an employee of Beverly Jefferson Transfer Line, which maintained one of the largest companies of carriages, hacks, and wagons in this section of the country." -- from History of Dane County, p. 813 in Stanley C. Hanks Collection Notes PH 6095. Beverly Jefferson, for forty years was the the owner and manager of an important transfer line at the Wisconsin capital. He had lived at the Park hotel for 25 years, dying in 1908 at the home of his son in Chicago. He was 1/16 African-American. |
| Image ID: | 115071 |
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| Creation Date: | after 1878 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Stanley C. Hanks Madison, Wisconsin, history photograph collection, circa 1850s-1985 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, b/w copy |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6095.62 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 4 inches |
| From Stanley C. Hanks Collection Notes, Dane County Title Company Newspaper Ad Series - Old Madison Job No. 9009 6/21/54: Long before this omnibus made its regular trips to the depot, before the Park Hotel was built in 1871 to accommodate the legislators so they wouldn't move the capital to Milwaukee...we were serving Dane County. |
| Work clothes |
| Porches |
| Cities and towns |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Hotels |
| Lampposts |
| Carriages and carts |
| Horse-drawn vehicles |
| Streets |
| Suits (Clothing) |
| Horses |
| Arches |
| Columns |
| Coats |
| Hats |
| Neckties |
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