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- C.H. Brown Engine Co. Steam Gauge Display Board, circa 1900 -
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
C.H. Brown Engine Co. Steam Gauge Display Board, circa 1900
- Paper Hat from Moran Square Diner, "Where Food is at Its Best," Fitchburg. Massachusetts, 1940-1950 -
- 1940-1950
- Collections - Artifact
Paper Hat from Moran Square Diner, "Where Food is at Its Best," Fitchburg. Massachusetts, 1940-1950
- Lunch Wagon by the Railroad Depot, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, circa 1916 - Wheeled, horse-drawn lunch wagons served simple, affordable food to customers on the go. Intended to be brought out onto city streets at night after regular restaurants closed, some -- like this lunch wagon in Fitchburg, Massachusetts -- became permanent fixtures, open day and night. These were the forerunners of diners.
- April 20, 1916
- Collections - Artifact
Lunch Wagon by the Railroad Depot, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, circa 1916
Wheeled, horse-drawn lunch wagons served simple, affordable food to customers on the go. Intended to be brought out onto city streets at night after regular restaurants closed, some -- like this lunch wagon in Fitchburg, Massachusetts -- became permanent fixtures, open day and night. These were the forerunners of diners.
- Waybill for Stagecoach Travel between Fitchburg, Massachusetts and Brattleboro, Vermont, 1844 - Waybills helped nineteenth-century stage lines keep track of fares and passengers. For each journey, company agents would fill out passenger names, destinations, number of seats and collected fares. Additional notes sometimes listed types of baggage or other special instructions. This clipped waybill documents a trip between Massachusetts and Vermont in July 1844.
- July 20, 1844
- Collections - Artifact
Waybill for Stagecoach Travel between Fitchburg, Massachusetts and Brattleboro, Vermont, 1844
Waybills helped nineteenth-century stage lines keep track of fares and passengers. For each journey, company agents would fill out passenger names, destinations, number of seats and collected fares. Additional notes sometimes listed types of baggage or other special instructions. This clipped waybill documents a trip between Massachusetts and Vermont in July 1844.