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Borden team, winner of the obstacle test in the Work Horse Parade on Union Square. June 13, 1908. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
I know this was posted once upon a time, but I was curiously looking up some of the names in the shop windows and found a very curious and tragic story about the rug importer in the upper left-hand corner:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=27576362
Looks like he just got finished a hard days work, cool picture
...was a Mistletoe & Borden milkman in Texas before & during the Depression. No horse team then, although he probably would have liked that better...
Picture of him in 1927 with his Model T Mistletoe truck can be found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mad4books/448810318/
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