Keywords: Carts and carriages
Item 8834
Old Fashioned Road Cart, Garland, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Garland Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Garland Media: Photographic print
Item 8738
Carriages at Johnson's, Waterford, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Waterford Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Waterford Media: Photographic print
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Reuben Ruby: Hackman, Activist
Reuben Ruby of Portland operated a hack in the city, using his work to earn a living and to help carry out his activist interests, especially abolition and the Underground Railroad.
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The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community
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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833
"… such as are in general use for boy and baby carriages now I made a perfect cart with stake rings side boards Snibells to lip up and all the…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… carriage with a homemade odometer attached to a carriage wheel to calculate distance traveled.(3) At each mile a stake was driven into the ground…"
