Check out these horse holidays images:
Me on the Horse-Drawn Streetcar during the Holidays
Image by Loren Javier
Rural Letter Carrier’s Christmas Card
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Christmas postcard from Pittstown, New Jersey rural carrier John S. MacIlroy to William Taylor dated December 21, 1915. The back of the postcard has a printed five stanza poem titled "If" that includes the verse, "when packages due don’t come on time / And those who are sending don’t raise their sign / it sure would save anxiety / if I knew you and you knew me." Many rural letter carriers left holiday postcards for their patrons, though few went as far as Mr. MacIlroy in creating specialty cards such as this one. Fortunately for MacIlroy, he remembered to place a stamp on this postcard. Carriers who simply placed postcards in their patrons’ mailboxes without stamps were subject to disciplinary measures for misuse of the mailbox.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified creator
Medium: Color postcard
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1915
Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5635
Repository: National Postal Museum
Collection: Rural Free Delivery
Accession number: A.2008-47
Horse mounted machine gun
Image by yewenyi
I would never have though of mounting a machine gun on a horse. I wonder if they used it from horse back?
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