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| 2 women and a girl seated in a road wagon. Circa 1907, Olivia Texas |
Question of the week: The wagon in this picture stands partly on a
series of long planks on the ground. We can see just the edge of a porch in the
front right of this picture. Was it common to have a plank platform for
unloading next to houses? next to stores? I don’t remember seeing anything like
this in any of the other pictures and I’m curious to know if others have seen
something similar in either pictures or “real” life. Suggestions? Speculations?
Beyond this – here is what we do know about this picture:
The vehicle is called a road wagon.
Small, light, and relatively cheap, these were common vehicles in the late 1800s and early
1900s. Note on this one, the rather sparse box and simple seat. It also lacks the elliptical springs that
became popular and almost ubiquitous on buggies in the late 1800s and 1900s.
You may recognize these ladies from
earlier pictures in this series. We last
saw Miss Hulda Damstrom with her little helper (here holding the reins) in the
post “Water
from the well.” The young lady may be Hulda’s sister, the youngest Damstrom
daughter, Elfrieda. If so, I’ve probably
dated the earlier post a little to late. Elfrieda was born in 1894. So if that
identification is correct, it would be more likely that these pictures would
have been taken during the 1902 or 1907 periods. The lady seated on the right
may be Amy Paulson, who was well known for co-opting others to take her picture
while she posed in front of her camera.
Identifiers:
Negative #:
Paulson252 (1200 ppi tiff downsized to
400 ppi jpeg for this post)
Related Posts:
Place: Olivia
Colony (Calhoun County) Texas
Date: Circa 1907
People:
Hulda Josephine Damstrom (1 Apr 1880, Kansas - 17 Jun
1967, Texas)
Elfrieda Damstrom (Samuelson) (11 Oct 1894, Texas –
29 Jan, 1988, California)
Amy Paulson (Anderson) (10 Dec 1881, Bjärhus,
Vedby, Skåne, Sweden, - 18 Oct 1918, Wyoming)
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