Contributed by Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
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Description
Written on the photo is: "A pair of Suffork Punch [Suffolk Punch] horses owned by Oscar Shirley about 1915, showing the low drop axel gigger waggon [jigger wagon], in use at that time in Aroostook Co., Maine."
The photograph was taken on Kelleran Street with Houlton's Monument Park in the background. Monument Park and the Civil War monument were built in 1909 on land on which the buildings had been burned in the Great Fire of Houlton in 1902.
About This Item
- Title: Suffolk Punch horses and gigger wagon, ca. 1915
- Creation Date: circa 1915
- Subject Date: circa 1915
- Location: Kelleran Street, Houlton, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 19 cm x 24 cm
- Collection: E. B. White Collection
- Object Type: Image
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Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum109 Main Street, Houlton, ME 04730
207-532-4216
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