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Found in a box with old stuff from our family. I would like to know the years they had this machine? The back as a name?
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The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
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In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
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Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
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Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
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Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
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Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
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Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
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American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes
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Cabinet Card PhotographsFirst introduced in the 1860s, cabinet card photographs were similar to car…
Beautiful photograph-- it dates from about 1895- 1910.
Scott
Looks like a steam tractor. Check out this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeT9uxB4ePQ
WOW I have never herd of this camera company before. i have had 2 4/5 view camera years ago
It is a steam roller not a steam tractor, steam rollers had wide flat lug less wheels to pack with, note the scraper on the front of the rear wheels. Also if you look closely in the left background there appears to be clay water pipes. I would say they are packing the street after pipe installation.
Check out this video of a Buffalo Springfield Roller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnV2lOseXEk
My wife's great great grandmother lived here from 1870-1918, her second husband was the water commissioner in our town 1875-1904, he must have gotten this print. Early in the 1880s he put wood pipes in the ground. My 1918 the water here was the best around here and was send on ships to England
Wow, sounds like mystery solved! This is such a great site!!
can you imagine trying to change a wheel on that beast!