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- Hearse Carriage outside P. Blake & Sons Funeral Building, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1915 - This photo shows a horse-drawn hearse outside P. Blake & Sons, a "funeral furnisher." Patrick Blake, the original proprietor, had been a furniture maker before selling caskets and other funeral supplies. The transition from furniture maker to undertaker was common in the 19th century, as furniture makers and woodworkers made caskets before the growth of the funeral industry.
- circa 1915
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Hearse Carriage outside P. Blake & Sons Funeral Building, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1915
This photo shows a horse-drawn hearse outside P. Blake & Sons, a "funeral furnisher." Patrick Blake, the original proprietor, had been a furniture maker before selling caskets and other funeral supplies. The transition from furniture maker to undertaker was common in the 19th century, as furniture makers and woodworkers made caskets before the growth of the funeral industry.
- Horse-Drawn Hearse in Parade during County Fair in Greenfield Village, 1970 - The Henry Ford held its first Country Fair event at Greenfield Village in 1951. The program embodied typical features representing America's early country or county fairs. Visitors enjoyed craft demonstrations, concerts, shows, parades, races and contests, engine and vehicle displays, and animal and livestock exhibits, to name just a few activities. The nearly annual springtime program lasted for thirty years.
- 1970
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Horse-Drawn Hearse in Parade during County Fair in Greenfield Village, 1970
The Henry Ford held its first Country Fair event at Greenfield Village in 1951. The program embodied typical features representing America's early country or county fairs. Visitors enjoyed craft demonstrations, concerts, shows, parades, races and contests, engine and vehicle displays, and animal and livestock exhibits, to name just a few activities. The nearly annual springtime program lasted for thirty years.
- Horse-Drawn Hearse and Driver, 1897 - Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867, and people soon preferred these photographic prints on cardboard stock to the earlier, smaller cartes-de-visite. American commonly collected and exchanged cabinet photographs through the early 1900s. This example, made in 1897 by Portland, Michigan, photographer George J. Van Horn, shows a horse-drawn hearse and rider.
- 1897
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Horse-Drawn Hearse and Driver, 1897
Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867, and people soon preferred these photographic prints on cardboard stock to the earlier, smaller cartes-de-visite. American commonly collected and exchanged cabinet photographs through the early 1900s. This example, made in 1897 by Portland, Michigan, photographer George J. Van Horn, shows a horse-drawn hearse and rider.
- Hearse Shed - This shed, originally built in Newton, New Hampshire, around 1850, was located near the local cemetery. Horse-drawn hearses, usually owned by the local community, were used to carry the coffin during funeral processions through town to the cemetery.
- circa 1850
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Hearse Shed
This shed, originally built in Newton, New Hampshire, around 1850, was located near the local cemetery. Horse-drawn hearses, usually owned by the local community, were used to carry the coffin during funeral processions through town to the cemetery.