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- Horse and Carriage Weathervane, 1880-1900 - Weathervanes point into the direction of the wind. This helped viewers anticipate weather changes before local forecasts became common after 1920. Functional weathervanes required a basic pointing device and directional arms, but manufacturers added decorative elements, or ornaments, to appeal to consumer interests. They most often depicted horses. This one featured a swift horse pulling a runabout.
- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Horse and Carriage Weathervane, 1880-1900
Weathervanes point into the direction of the wind. This helped viewers anticipate weather changes before local forecasts became common after 1920. Functional weathervanes required a basic pointing device and directional arms, but manufacturers added decorative elements, or ornaments, to appeal to consumer interests. They most often depicted horses. This one featured a swift horse pulling a runabout.
- Toy Horse Drawn Carriage, 1860-1880 -
- 1860-1880
- Collections - Artifact
Toy Horse Drawn Carriage, 1860-1880
- Child inside Room, with Toy Horse and Baby Carriage, circa 1900 -
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Child inside Room, with Toy Horse and Baby Carriage, circa 1900
- Horse-Drawn Carriages and Crowd of Men in Northville, Michigan, circa 1900 -
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Horse-Drawn Carriages and Crowd of Men in Northville, Michigan, circa 1900
- Christmas Card, Horse-Drawn Carriage and Shoppers in a City, 1955-1965 - Mailing colorful, commercially designed greeting cards was a 20th-century American tradition. During the holidays, friends and neighbors commonly exchanged cards wishing one another a Merry Christmas or Happy New Year. Cards sometimes depicted nostalgic scenes of bygone days. This card from the mid-1900s shows people bustling about dressed as if from earlier times. And there are no automobiles, only horse-drawn vehicles.
- 1955-1965
- Collections - Artifact
Christmas Card, Horse-Drawn Carriage and Shoppers in a City, 1955-1965
Mailing colorful, commercially designed greeting cards was a 20th-century American tradition. During the holidays, friends and neighbors commonly exchanged cards wishing one another a Merry Christmas or Happy New Year. Cards sometimes depicted nostalgic scenes of bygone days. This card from the mid-1900s shows people bustling about dressed as if from earlier times. And there are no automobiles, only horse-drawn vehicles.
- Horse Drawn Carriages in Greenfield Village, 1935 -
- August 05, 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Horse Drawn Carriages in Greenfield Village, 1935
- Six Horses Pulling a Sightseeing Carriage, circa 1900 - 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.
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Six Horses Pulling a Sightseeing Carriage, circa 1900
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.
- Crystal Palace International Horse and Horseless Carriage and Roads Locomotion Exhibition Official Catalogue, 1896 -
- 1896
- Collections - Artifact
Crystal Palace International Horse and Horseless Carriage and Roads Locomotion Exhibition Official Catalogue, 1896
- Six Horses Pulling a Sightseeing Carriage, circa 1900 - 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.
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Six Horses Pulling a Sightseeing Carriage, circa 1900
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.
- Tourists Posing in Horse-Drawn Carriage, circa 1950 -
- circa 1950
- Collections - Artifact
Tourists Posing in Horse-Drawn Carriage, circa 1950