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Ox-drawn Cart

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Description: Cart drawn by two oxen on a tree-lined dirt road. The driver holds a stick and the cart holds lumber and rope. Caption reads, "'The Village Express' Rutlan...
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Elmer Avenue, North

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Description: View down Elmer Avenue, taken from the middle of the street. A street car and carriage are moving along the street; the car moves away from the camera, and...
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Washington Street

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Description: A view of Washington Street. Trees line the street, as do telephone and/or electric lines. A carriage is parked on the right side of the street, in the mid...
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Maine Central Railroad Station

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Description: Carriages waiting at the Maine Central Railroad Station, chartered in 1856 and becoming operational in 1862. The Maine Central route was also known as "The...
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Business District

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of East Broadway, a wide road in the business district. The street has tall stone and brick buildings as well as broad sidewalks. Many horse...
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State Mills Lake

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Description: Elevated view of the old mill at State Mills Lake. A man, an automobile, and a horse and carriage are on the road in front of the mill.
Painting

Yellowstone Church

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Description: A depiction of the Yellowstone Church of rural Lafayette County, just a few miles from the Kammerude farm. The church is built from locally quarried limest...
Painting

Rural Free Delivery

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Description: A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi...
Painting

The Country Store

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Description: View of a country store in autumn. A man driving a horse-drawn wagon hauls full milkcans in the foreground and, to the right, several families are hauling ...
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Postwar Berlin

Date: 1946
Description: Men pulling a cart. It was, he wrote, the way "people move their stuff." Although undated, it was taken before June, 1946 when he returned to the United ...
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Coffin Cart

Date: 1946
Description: A coffin cart photographed by Sigurd Olson while traveling, probably in Germany, shortly after the end of the World War II.
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Food Cart

Date: 1946
Description: American soldier purchasing something from a food cart, a scene photographed by conservationist Sigurd Olson while traveling in Europe immediately after th...
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Mogul Tractor along Dirt Road

Date: 1912
Description: Large Mogul tractor pulling a grader along a dirt road. Two men ride in the tractor, while three others supervise from behind the tractor.
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Regimental Street

Date: 1918
Description: A view down Regimental Street, a dirt road at Camp Logan, shows a man in a horse-drawn vehicle, with a fence on the right, and many identical buildings on ...
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The Curtis Hotel

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Description: Exterior of the Curtis Hotel, a Victorian era building expanded in 1883. Horse-drawn carriages can be seen parked underneath an awning, and a man stands o...
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Procession at Bryn Mawr

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Description: A man leads a procession with a bull carrying a long cart decorated with flowers. Women process along the sides of the cart and a band marches on the road ...
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Parade for Old Homecoming Week

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Description: View of a parade for Old Homecoming Week. A man leads a group of boys in uniform down a road. Behind them, a cart carries passengers and children hold onto...
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Battle Field of New Hope Church, GA No.1

Date: 1866
Description: A dirt road passes through the battlefield, with fortifications on the sides. It is a lightly forested area. A horse and buggy are among some trees in the ...
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Chamber of Commerce - Anaglyph

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph view of Chamber of Commerce at Broad and Michigan Streets. The building is the center of the image, with a telephone pole to the right, a larg...
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Fire Department Carts With Huge Water Barrels

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Description: Men steer mule-drawn Fire Department carts down a dirt road in Matamoros, Mexico. Several buildings stand in the background.

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