Six Horses Pulling a Sightseeing Carriage, circa 1900

Summary

Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Americans planned sightseeing vacations. They set aside time to simply look at things, often booking tours that transported them into foreign landscapes. From inside or atop a horse-drawn carriage like this, sightseers could absorb their surroundings and transcend the commonplace realities of their lives back home.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Americans planned sightseeing vacations. They set aside time to simply look at things, often booking tours that transported them into foreign landscapes. From inside or atop a horse-drawn carriage like this, sightseers could absorb their surroundings and transcend the commonplace realities of their lives back home.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1900

Creators

Unknown

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.188.2.E

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in

Width: 10 in

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