Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912, this photograph shows a man driving a team of four horses pulling a wagon carrying ropes and other tools. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b11_f622
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Horse-drawn vehicles; Wagons; Agricultural equipment
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This photograph shows a team of four horses hitched to a Conestoga wagon that has stopped on the National Road, ca. 1900. Two African American men are riding the two horses nearest the wagon. The road surface appears to be somewhat rutted. The National Road (also called the Cumberland Road or the U.S. Road) was the first federally sponsored roadway. The U.S. Congress commissioned the National Road in 1806 as a conduit to the West, linking the Potomac River and Cumberland, Maryland, to St. Louis, Missouri, and the Mississippi River. The road opened Ohio and the Northwest Territory to settlement and trade with the eastern U.S. By 1838 the Cumberland Road had reached Springfield, Ohio; three years later it reached Vandalia, Illiinois, where construction stopped due to a funding shortfall. By this time the railroads had attracted travelers and business shipping away from the National Road, and the project was abandoned. The National Road crossed the state of Ohio along what is now U.S. 40. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05823
Subjects: Wagons--United States--History; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
 

Description: This photograph shows a two-horse team hitched to a Conestoga wagon as it approaches a covered bridge at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. A layer of snow covers the ground. A man wearing a cap and a checkered jacket stands near the wagon with his back to the camera, looking ahead at the bridge entrance. A hanging sign posted to the left of the bridge reads: "Shelburne Museum." Above the bridge entrance a posted sign reads: "SPEED LIMIT. HORSES AT A WALK. MOTOR VEHICLES 10 MILES PER HOUR." A two-horse team hitched to a Conestoga wagon approaches a covered bridge at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. This photograph shows a two-horse team hitched to a Conestoga wagon as it approaches a covered bridge at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. A layer of snow covers the ground. A man wearing a cap and a checkered jacket stands near the wagon with his back to the camera, looking ahead at the bridge entrance. A hanging sign posted to the left of the bridge reads: "Shelburne Museum." Above the bridge entrance a posted sign reads: "SPEED LIMIT. HORSES AT A WALK. MOTOR VEHICLES 10 MILES PER HOUR." Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) was a pioneering collector of American folk art who founded Shelburne Museum in 1947. In creating and housing the museum’s collections she incorporated 18th- and 19th-century buildings from New England and New York. She had 20 historic structures relocated to museum’s grounds, including this two-lane covered bridge, which was built in 1845 to cross the Lamoille River in Cambridge, Vermont. The 168-foot bridge has an arch truss (patented in 1804 by Theodore Burr), which allowed the bridge to have a longer span. The bridge has two vehicle lanes and a footpath. In 1949 the bridge was dismantled and moved to the Shelburne Museum. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05824
Subjects: Shelburne Museum; Wagons--United States--History; Covered bridges--Vermont; Bridges--Vermont
Places: Shelburne (Vermont); Chittenden County (Vermont)
 

Description: This photograph shows a four-horse team hitched to a conestoga wagon. A man, possibly the wagoneer, wears a hat and smokes a cigar as he sits astride the horse on left nearest the wagon. Another man, also wearing a hat and smoking a cigar, is seated on the "lazy board," which protruded from the side of the wagon. Both men are looking toward the camera. The figure of a third man, his back to the camera, is visible in the left background as he walks ahead of the wagon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05825
Subjects: Wagons--United States--History; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
 

Description: Reverse of a similar photograph reads: "'Leafing Through the Pages of the Miami Valley Album' (Dayton Daily News - Dec. 9, 1934). This is not the Fuller Brush Man, just Frank F. Kem, his delivery wagon and famous horses which he named 'Tom & Jerry'. Photo made in 1890. Photo copied by F.W.P., Dayton, O., 4/22/38." This photograph shows Kem seated on his delivery wagon, which bears the words "Brushes. Soap" and an illustration of the American flag. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F13_015
Subjects: Wagons--United States; Horse-drawn vehicles--United States--History
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "'Leafing Through Pages of the Miami Valley Album'. (Dayton Daily News - Dec. 9, 1934). This is not the Fuller Brush Man, just Frank F. Kem, his delivery wagon and famous horses which he named 'Tom & Jerry'. Photo made in 1890. Photo copied by F.W.P., Dayton, O., 4/22/38." Kem is seated in his delivery wagon, which bears the words "Brushes. Soap." and an illustration of the American flag. More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F13_016_1
Subjects: Wagons--United States; Horse-drawn vehicles--United States--History
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)