February 7, 2013
I’m knee-deep in working on the March issue of The Carriage Journal, which is due to the printer by the end of next week.
So let’s just take a look at another old street scene today, shall we? The moment captured in this photo (in Plattsburgh, New York, c. 1907) looks to me like it was near the middle of a hot, sleepy day.
February 6, 2013
February 5, 2013
Here’s a busy street scene (Springfield, Mass., c. 1908) with a lot going on. There are electric streetcars, motorcars, several horse-drawn wagons, a buggy, and a whole lot of pedestrians. Not to mention the wide variety of hats on said pedestrians, and some amazingly ornate architecture.
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February 4, 2013
Here’s a wonderful portrait of a milk-delivery vehicle, from New Orleans, c. 1910.
Luckily for us, a descendant of that very milkman posted this comment on the photo at the Shorpy website:
“This was a milk cart that belonged to my great-great-grandfather, Adam Schoendorf. I was delighted to see this, as I had only seen a few photos of it from the back, taken by his daughter Marie. (Those photos were probably lost after Katrina and the levee failure.) Adam Schoendorf owned Hunter’s Dairy in New Orleans, located at the corner of Havana and Ne Plus Ultra streets. Ne Plus Ultra is now Lafreniere Street.
“A more well-known photo of a different, larger Schoendorf vehicle can be seen here. This wagon is harnessed to a horse named Billy – ‘the ugliest horse my papa owed, but the smartest’ according to Aunt Marie. Billy’s harness features medallions with the initials ‘A.S.’ The original [photo] is in the Library of Congress, and appears in many books about New Orleans.”
February 2, 2013
Today may be Groundhog Day, and Phil may have predicted an early spring, but here it’s all snow, snow, and more snow.
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Do you see those two figures near the lower left corner? They’re skiing down the street.
The Slower Road 