ATDTDA (1): "horse-drawn conveyance"

[Tim Strzechowski]

"Meantime Miles and Lindsay were off to the Fair.  The horse-drawn conveyance they had boarded took them through the swarming streets of southern Chicago [...] At length the car deposited them at a street corner from which, the conductor assured them, it would be but a short walk to the Fairgrounds [...]" (ATD, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 21)


http://americanhistory.si.edu/ONTHEMOVE/themes/story_45_1.html

Horse-drawn wagons brought supplies to the site of the new Central Library in the winter of 1893. 
Photograph; b&w. Site of the Chicago Public Library Central Library, Randolph Street, looking southwest toward Lake Michigan, ca. 1893. Chicago Public Library Archives, Special Collections & Preservation Division.
http://www.chipublib.org/digital/woop/cc1_1.html


In the 1800's, most travelers going west had to use some type of horse-drawn carriage or wagon. The Arbor Lodge Carriage House has a wonderful collection of carriages. The Carriage House was built in 1901 for about $10,000. The general public will be seeing less and less of these types of vehicles as time evolves. The eleven carriages housed at Arbor Lodge were actually used by J. Sterling Morton and his family. In fact, these photos were taken at Arbor Lodge. The slightest change in a design of a carriage would result in a different classification of the carriage. This made it difficult to find information on some of the vehicles. Most carriages were manufactured in the east, but, an interesting note, by the 1890's Michigan was among the nation's leaders in the carriage industry. Early on, before carriages were mass-produced, only the wealthy owned them. [...]

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111463/carriagehouse.htm

http://www.longislandmuseum.org/EXHIBIT-GrandOpening.asp


And here's at about the level I'm functioning at this morning ...

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215480/transport.htm
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