• Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center
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The Western United States is a vast and sometimes inhospitable region. The transportation of people and goods in the West during the late 19th century and early 20th century is the subject of this virtual exhibit. Exhibition photographs, which are drawn from the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center collections, include images of horses, mules, wagons, carriages, railroad cars, and even bicycles.
Horses and donkeys are shown as individual transportation, pack animals, and as the motive power for a variety of wagons and carriages. Wagon images in the exhibit include a one-horse farm wagon, a chuck wagon, a Conestoga wagon, a hay wagon, and several freight wagons. More specialized vehicles include a peddler’s wagon, a fire wagon, and a sheep wagon, which is an early kind of house trailer.
Vehicles for transporting people include a horse-drawn city bus, stage and touring coaches, and several types of personal carriages. Also included are two images related to railroads in Oklahoma Territory and a photograph of an early bicycle race in Stillwater, Oklahoma Territory. Finally, the exhibit includes one photograph of a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, the lunch truck on the set of a mid-1920s Tom Mix movie.
Photographic formats represented in the exhibit include postcards, photographic postcards, stereographs, cabinet card photographs, and mounted albumen and gelatin silver prints in a variety of sizes.
• Horse Power
• Wagons
• Carriages
• Other Transportation
