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North Adams, Massachusetts, circa 1908. "Richmond Hotel, Main Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Not diapers per se, but carriage drivers have been using manure-catching devices on their horses for a while now. Usually it's a kind of sling that attaches to the harness and the cross-brace on the carriage shafts.
I suppose the equine equivalent of a catalytic converter would be a compost heap.
The Richmond was lost due to urban renewal and a Holiday Inn is now on the site.
I'd just have to bet that scores of people today would have a fit over the horse droppings in the street that were so common back then. Probably even be a diaper movement.
Taken quite literally by this handsome building.
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