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- Private Road Coach, 1906 - "Coaching" was popular sport for wealthy Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Enthusiasts savored the challenge of handling four spirited horses while driving heavy, custom-made coaches like this one. Patrick A. Valentine, a partner at Chicago meatpacker Armour & Company, purchased this coach in 1906 and used it at his lakeside estate in fashionable Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
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Private Road Coach, 1906
"Coaching" was popular sport for wealthy Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Enthusiasts savored the challenge of handling four spirited horses while driving heavy, custom-made coaches like this one. Patrick A. Valentine, a partner at Chicago meatpacker Armour & Company, purchased this coach in 1906 and used it at his lakeside estate in fashionable Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.