Aug/102
Uniformed Rural Letter Carrier and Vehicle
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Uniformed Rural Letter Carrier and Vehicle
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Rural carriers were not required to wear uniforms. A few, such as this unidentified carrier, purchased and wore city carrier uniforms along their routes. The carrier is posed between a rural mailbox and his Ford automobile. Unlike city carriers, rural letter carriers were required to supply their own transportation for making their daily rounds.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Geography: USA
Date: 1925
Collection: U.S. Mail Trucks
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=1934&q=A.2006-75
Repository: National Postal Museum
Accession number: A.2006-75
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Aug/109
Cool Transportation images
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Mailsters on parade
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Date: c. 1954
Object number: A.2009-56
Medium: paper; photo-emulsion
Dimensions (Unframed): 8" x 10"
Description: To promote their newest mail carrier vehicles, postal officials organized a group of mailsters for an appearance in a holiday parade. The mailsters bore banners of Santa’s reindeer, with the “Rudolph” vehicle in the lead. That mailster has been fitted with a red cover over its top front headline to mimic the fabled reindeer’s red nose. Washington, DC postal officials took advantage of a Christmas parade in suburban Maryland to show off their new three-wheeled vehicles.
Place: United States of America; Maryland
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Collection Description: Transportation/Motorized
Credit line: National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection
Photographer: Unknown
Persistent URL:http://arago.si.edu/flash/?oid=218995|tid=2050906|s1=2|
Repository:National Postal Museum
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Aug/100
Benjamin Harrison “My Country Above Party ” Portrait Ribbon
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Benjamin Harrison “My Country Above Party ” Portrait Ribbon
Image by Cornell University Library
Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Benjamin Harrison "My Country Above Party " Portrait Ribbon
Political Party: Republican
Date Made: ca. 1888-1892
Measurement: Ribbon: 9 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.; 24.13 x 11.43 cm
Classification: Photographs
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/60f8
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
Louisville and Cincinnati mail packet steamer “Jacob Strader”
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: This is an illustration of the "Jacob Strader," a steamboat mail packet on the Louisville and Cincinnati mail line. The "Jacob Strader" was a troop carrier during the Civil War and was dismantled in 1866.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1856
Collection: U.S. Mail Packets and Boats
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=1975&q=A.2006-95
Repository: National Postal Museum
Accession number: A.2006-95
Aug/100
Nice Transportation photos
A few nice transportation images I found:
Transport bringing up ammunition
Image by National Library of Scotland
Team of horses transporting ammunition at night, France. This image shows a horse-drawn carriage moving along a road at night. There are four horses with two men controlling them, and one man sitting on the carriage. The horses look quite startled and jumpy, possibly as a result of the burst of light needed to take the photograph. They are moving along a narrow track bordered on both sides by earth or sand.
Machine gun schools were set up quite close to the front line, to provide intensive training in their use. The machine gun was one of the main defensive weapons used by both sides during World War I.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Night picture at a machine gun school. Transport bringing up ammunition.']
[Firewood market scene]
Image by Cornell University Library
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: [Firewood market scene]
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea
Type: Photographs
Description: Bullock or pony-drawn carts, loaded with firewood or grass for household fires, filing through the streets. Wood fagots were used as fuel for cooking and heating ‘ondol’, the traditional Korean underfloor heating system, which was contructed of brick or stone floors, covered with strong waxed paper.
Identifier: 1260.57.71.02
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xkx
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
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Aug/100
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Fresh meat going up to the troops
Image by National Library of Scotland
Mule-drawn carts taking meat to the Front. There are two men guiding the mules. They are making their way passed some farm buildings. The road is dry and dusty. On the edge of the building on the left is a notice stating ‘NO LORRIES.’
With around two million men in the British Army alone, it was a huge undertaking to feed them all.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Fresh meat going up to the troops.']
Borenshult Lock on the Göta Canal, Sweden
Image by Cornell University Library
Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00729
Title: Borenshult Lock on the Göta Canal, Sweden
Photographer: Axel Sjöberg
Canal date: 1823-1825
Photograph date: ca. 1865-ca. 1895
Location: Europe: Sweden
Materials: albumen print
Image: 6 1/4 x 8 5/8 in.; 15.875 x 21.9075 cm
Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5sv6
There are no known copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
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Aug/100
Sweet Transportation photos
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Mounted Horseman Who Will Take Part in a Parade through the Town of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, near Emporia, During Its Annual Flint Hills Rodeo, a Major Cultural Event of the Area…06/1974
Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: Mounted Horseman Who Will Take Part in a Parade through the Town of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, near Emporia, During Its Annual Flint Hills Rodeo, a Major Cultural Event of the Area. Horses and Large Cattle Trucks Are the Featured Models of Transportation. It Is a 19th Century "Cowboy" Town in the Heart of the Kansas Flint Hills Region, and near an Area Designed as a Possible Site for a Tall Grass Prairie National Park 06/1974
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-14589
Photographer: Duncan, Patricia D., 1932-
Subjects:
Emporia (Lyon county, Kansas, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=557041
Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html
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Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Mounted Horsemen, One Relaxing with a Can of Beer, Await the Start of the Parade in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, near Emporia It Is a Part of the Flint Hills Rodeo, a Major Cultural Event of the Area…06/1974
Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: Mounted Horsemen, One Relaxing with a Can of Beer, Await the Start of the Parade in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, near Emporia It Is a Part of the Flint Hills Rodeo, a Major Cultural Event of the Area. Horses and Cattle Trucks Are the Featured Modes of Transportation. It Is a 19th Century "Cowboy" Town in the Heart of the Kansas Flint Hills Region, and near an Area Designated as a Possible Site for a Tall Grass Prairie National Park 06/1974
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-14591
Photographer: Duncan, Patricia D., 1932-
Subjects:
Emporia (Lyon county, Kansas, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=557043
Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html
Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html
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Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Aug/100
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Bringing in the wounded
Image by National Library of Scotland
Two soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher, France. This is a rather disorientating picture as a lot of different backgrounds are portrayed. The soldiers are walking through what appears to be a field of corn. In the distance there are large grass embankments. Sandwiched between the two are large mounds of building rubble. The soldiers are uniformed and wearing their helmets. The soldier on the stretcher has had his helmet removed.
Sergeant Gilbert Feiro commented in a letter written in December 1918, that after a German air raid ‘I got them [the wounded] fixed up and sent back for ten litter bearers and finally about daylight got them started back for the hospital.’
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Bringing in the wounded.']
Sleighs used for conveying the wounded through the mud
Image by National Library of Scotland
Soldiers leading horses along a road in single file, during World War I. The horses are pulling sleighs. According to the photograph’s original caption these sleighs were used as stretchers to transport the wounded. The road they are on looks extremely muddy and slippery. The surrounding landscape is bleak and lifeless.
[Original reads: 'Sleighs used for conveying the wounded through the mud. Off up to the front line to [fetch] the wounded.’]
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Aug/100
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Big gun going up to the front
Image by National Library of Scotland
Set against the background of a man-made wasteland, this image shows a traction steam engine pulling a big gun to the front line. Judging by the mud clinging to the wheels of the gun, the job of pulling this gun is no easy task. It is likely that the men accompanying the gun would be required to push and pull the gun at various stages of the journey.
Though this photograph shows a steam engine pulling a big gun, the means of transportation depended entirely on the terrain. On the Western Front, draught animals were often used to pull gun carriages, though the heaviest guns – ‘railway artillery – always stayed on railway lines. This inability to move artillery at high speed was another contributing factor in the failure to achieve a vital breakthrough. It is easy to see why Wilfred Owen likened such guns to monsters.
[Original reads: 'BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTO FROM THE WESTERN FRONT. A big gun going up to the front.']
Making a new railway track
Image by National Library of Scotland
Laying new railway lines, France. Individual gangs of men are laying new railway sleepers alongside four existing lines. A man is crossing the line to pick up more sleepers from a large pile on the right of the photograph.
Railways were erected and dismantled quickly during World War I. They were essential for communication and the transportation of supplies and troops.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Making a new railway track.']
Some of the lumbermen outside their cabin
Image by National Library of Scotland
Lumbermen crowd round the entrance to a cabin to have their photograph taken. This is one of a series of photographs showing Forest Lumber Works behind the front line. Others in the collection show a man preparing a saw, the transportation of logs and a stockpile of timber.
The cabin in this photograph was very likely made using off cuts of wood. With the crippling shortages at the Front, nothing went to waste.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE FRONT IN FRANCE. Forest Lumber Works - some of the lumbermen outside their cabin.']
Aug/100
Straight from the ship into the train – oats for our horses
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Straight from the ship into the train – oats for our horses
Image by National Library of Scotland
Oats being loaded into a train, Western Front, during World War I. This image shows men unloading sacks from a crane into a train wagon. The original caption identifies these sacks as containing oat supplies for the horses. During the war the army imported 5,438,603 tons of fodder for their horses and mules. This figure probably includes both oats and hay. It shows the importance of horses in the war, for transport as well as for the almost outdated cavalry.
Rail transport was extensively used for moving supplies and ammunition from the docks to towns nearer to the front. By 1918 the army was using 900 locomotives to move goods. This was in sharp contrast to the often chaotic transportation of supplies at the beginning of the war.
[Original reads: 'Straight from the ship into the train - oats for our horses.']
Automobile touring, White River Valley
Image by UW Digital Collections
Automobile touring, White River Valley
Photographer:
Unknown
Subjects (LCSH):
Automobiles–Washington (State)–White River Valley
Automobile driving–Washington (State)–White River Valley
Sightseers–Washington (State)–White River Valley
Digital Collection:
Transportation Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/transportationweb/index.html
Item Number: TRA0035
Persistent URL:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/transportation,82
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Laying a railroad over newly captured ground
Image by National Library of Scotland
A whole team of uniformed men laying a railroad. Most of them are walking along the sleepers, between the tracks. The track has been built on raised ground. This was probably in an effort to avoid the track becoming swamped in the thick mud that plagued the Front for much of the war.
Whilst the main railways in France were used by both sides throughout the war, the building of new links proved essential for the transportation of men, supplies and equipment.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE FRONT IN FRANCE. Laying a railroad over newly captured ground.']
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Aug/100
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These tins are put in kilns and the solder extracted is of great value
Image by National Library of Scotland
Tin cans being stored for melting down, France, during World War I. The blurred can arcing across the middle of the viewers vision gives this scene an immediacy and sense of vitality. The two soldiers standing on top of this massive heap of cans seem unconcerned for their own safety, although this pile would probably have been quite unstable and injuries from it collapsing would have been unpleasant. The third soldier is also wildly throwing a can at the top of the heap.
Tin cans were mainly used for the transportation of bread and meat. Despite the need for metal in guns and clothing, the successful transportation of food outweighed these other matters and so tin rations were spent on these cans. As a result anything which could be reused from them was a huge bonus.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. SALVAGE WORK IN FRANCE. These tins are put in kilns and the solder extracted is of great value.']
Women on outing with automobile
Image by UW Digital Collections
Women on outing with automobile, ca. 1909
Photographer:
Unknown
Subjects (LCSH):
Automobiles
Women
Dogs
Portraits, Group
Digital Collection:
Transportation Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/transportationweb/index.html
Item Number: TRA0200
Persistent URL:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/transportation,107
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Packard tourist sightseeing car
Image by UW Digital Collections
Packard tourist sightseeing car, n.d.
Photographer:
Unknown
Subjects (LCSH):
Packard automobile
Buses
Tourists
Portraits, Group
Digital Collection:
Transportation Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/transportationweb/index.html
Item Number: TRA0132
Persistent URL:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/transportation,81
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