The Slower Road

More old photos! …

1) traffic in front of Boston’s Tremont Temple, c. 1900

2) mule teams wait while cotton is loaded (unloaded?) by the levee in New Orleans, c. 1903

3) Knoxville, Tennessee, c. 1903 (according to all their signs, the store at the lower left, the Broyles, McClellan & Lackey Co., sold seeds, fertilizers, farm equipment, buggies, harness, and horse goods)

4) hotel buses waiting at the train station in Atlantic City, New Jersey, c. 1906

5) three children and a furry pony in Washington, DC, circa 1917

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Still more to come …

Here are links to more wonderful old photos with driving horses. (And you’ve figured out by now that you can scroll up and down and side to side to see every bit of these huge photos, right?)

1) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, c. 1901

2) piers at the foot of Wall Street, New York, c. 1905 (with a lovely Colgate & Co. wagon)

3) Easter lilies for sale in New York, c. 1905, with horse-drawn cabs and the flower vendor’s wagon by the sidewalk and a streetcar “speeding” by

4) crossing the Kentucky River on a ferry at High Bridge, Kentucky, c. 1907

5) workers loading a wagon at a granite quarry in Concord, New Hampshire, c. 1908

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This website is rapidly becoming one of my favorites, so expect more links to more old photos!

I’m still having fun exploring that old-photo website where I found the photos I’ve been spending the past few days posting links to. Here are a few more, of driving horses (well, driving equines). Enjoy!

1) streetcar in New Orleans, c. 1890

2) a boy and his dog and his donkey, in California in 1904

3) big delivery vehicles (and more) in Chicago, c. 1907

I wanted to get this post up earlier than usual, as I was without Internet and unable to post anything yesterday. I’ll have links to more old photos tomorrow!

Continuing with the historic photos:

Next, here’s a wonderful view of Broadway (the main street) in Saratoga, New York, in 1915. I’ve walked down this same sidewalk, but when I was there several years ago, there weren’t quite so many (well, any) of these fabulous horse-drawn carriages and commercial vehicles.

Tomorrow, I’ll post links to a few more.

Did you see the wonderful photo of A. G. Vanderbilt’s Belmont coach in New York, which I linked to several days ago?

I’ve been browsing around on the site where that photo lives, and I’ve found more!

First, here’s a photo from 1912, of Mrs. William E. Borah, wife of Senator Borah from Idaho, in a Baker electric car. The car’s design is clearly still based on popular carriage designs.

Stay tuned … I’ll post a link to another one tomorrow!