September 24, 2012
I think I may have already posted this photo here, some time ago. But if so, that was just a small version.
Here, you can browse at your leisure through the huge version of this commercial vehicle “parking lot” in Norfolk, Virginia, c. 1905. There are quite a few signs, vehicles, and horses to look at here … Enjoy!
September 21, 2012
I saw some horse-show photos yesterday … I think they were probably from the very early twentieth century. In one, as a test of the driver’s skill, a turnout was driving between two chairs. Percursors to our modern cones competitions, perhaps?
Speaking of cones courses, let’s head back to Germany to take a look at some of the Celle CIAT competitors on their cones course.
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the Polish five-in-hand was the last to go on the cones course and, unfortunately, it poured rain throughout their drive … Can you see the rain?!
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September 20, 2012
This horse (in Houghton, Michigan, c. 1906) is sporting an old-fashioned contraption known as a fly net.
Similar fly nets were available in the 1897 Sears catalog, where the price varied according to the number of leather strips ($1.90 for a medium-weight, sixty-strip net; $2.15 for seventy-two strips, $2.40 for eighty-four strips, or $2.75 for a hundred).
September 19, 2012
You may not notice it at first, in amongst all. the. people (most wearing lovely hats, by the way) … but right in the middle of this image is a pair of horses hitched to a simple flat-bed wagon.
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September 18, 2012
Well, the October issue of the magazine is done (yaaay!) and at the printer. And now I must turn my attention to the fifty million other things that have been lurking on my “to-do” list, awaiting their turn.
So, quickly, here’s a street scene from the town of York, Maine, c. 1908. There are two carriages, with a single horse each, and what looks like perhaps an automobile, hiding behind the tree … but where’d all the people go?
The Slower Road 