Keywords: horse drawn sleigh
Item 44484
Horse drawn sleigh, Bangor, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Bangor Media: Glass Negative
Item 105117
Winter sleigh at Charles Colby's house, Westport Island, ca. 1908
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1908 Location: Westport Island Media: Photographic print
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History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
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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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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History
"… representative examples of antique horse-drawn carriages and sleighs since before WWII. By the late 1960s, his collection was overflowing his own…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4
"During the winter months when there was snow, sleigh cars replaced the horse cars. Some time after Portland became electrified in the 1880s, the…"
