New Bedford-Fairhaven Coach

Title:: New Bedford-Fairhaven Coach
Description:: Black and white photo of woman with dark hair piled on top of head, in light blouse and dark full-length skirt, holding baby in arms, standing to left of old 4 wheel horse-drawn coach. Coach is painted with lettering reading across top of side "G.D. COWEN, DRIVER [illegible]" and at bottom "THIS BUS WAS USED/ BETWEEN FAIRHAVEN & NEW BEDFORD/ 18[numbers blocked by wheel spokes] TO 1872." Back door of coach is open; sits outside on open lawn near treed area, wooden fence in background; window of building just visible in background at left. Mounted on gray cardboard with stamped band border.
Date:: [ca. 1860–1955]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Gelatin silver prints
Landscape photographs
Location:: New Bedford Free Public Library
Main Library, room 309, cabinet U07, shelf SH10, container BX14:F053 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: Photograph Collection
Subjects:: Buses
Women
Transportation
Carriages & coaches
Infants
Places:: Massachusetts > Bristol (county) > New Bedford
Massachusetts > Bristol (county) > Fairhaven
Extent:: 1 photograph : gelatin silver print
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