In 1913, automobiles replaced horse-drawn stages on the 14-mile route from El Portal to Yosemite Valley, reducing travel time from four hours to just one hour and thirty-five minutes. Visitors rode in open-air motorized stages, similar to the one seen here, ushering in a new era of travel to Yosemite.
Scaffolding in place on top of the County Courthouse in preparation for demolition in 1936. The Spring Street tunnel entrance is shown.
The White Wagons; Collection & Distribution wagon #2 in Washington, D.C., circa 1897. Collection and Distribution wagons operated like mail trolleys. Tables were set up in the wagons so clerks on board could process and cancel city mail as the wagon p***ed through city streets.
Late Victorian SC Pease & Sons white, eight column, carved horse drawn he**** advertising photo, Merrimac, MA.
Sevier County, Tennessee, 1939. A group of tourists leaving in a hotel car for a trip in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mountain guide Wiley Oakley is sitting in front right seat.
Road being built from Rogersville to Haleys Springs, Hawkins County, Tennessee 1911. New construction using marble as material.
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