Audubon Boy Number: 41471 Foaled: 1897 Sire: J.J. Audubon Dam: Flaxy by Bourbon Wilkes Bred by: E.P. Weathers of Avon, Kentucky Sold to: James Y. Gatcomb, Concord, New Hampshire Pacing Record: 1:59¼ From Wallace’s American Trotting Register containing the pedigrees of Standard Bred Trotters and Pacers and an Appendix of Non-Standard Animals, by The American Trotting Register Association, Volume XVII, Chicago, 1907, Standard Stallions, p. 153.
Description: Audubon Boy Number: 41471 Foaled: 1897 Sire: J.J. Audubon Dam: Flaxy by Bourbon Wilkes Bred by: E.P. Weathers of Avon, Kentucky Sold to: James Y. Gatcomb, Concord, New Hampshire Pacing Record: 1:59¼ From Wallace’s American Trotting Register containing the pedigrees of Standard Bred Trotters and Pacers and an Appendix of Non-Standard Animals, by The American Trotting Register Association, Volume XVII, Chicago, 1907, Standard Stallions, p. 153. [show more]
"Archivists have not determined the date or place for this photograph. The pumper may have been manufactured by the La France Fire Engine Company in Elmira, New York, Clapp & Jones of New York, C. Ahrens & Co. / Ahrens Manufacturing Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio or the American Fire Engine Company, ""formed in 1891 as a joint venture between the Silsby Manufacturing Co. of Seneca Falls, New York, the Ahrens Manufacturing Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, the Clapp & Jones Manufacturing Co. of Hudson, New York, and the Button Fire Engine Co. of Waterford, New York."" – See “Worldwide Steam Fire Engine Register” by David Parfitt, Steel Wheels site, 04/30/2014, Accessed online 05/16/2014; http://www.steel-wheels.net/sferegister.html"
Description: "Archivists have not determined the date or place for this photograph. The pumper may have been manufactured by the La France Fire Engine Company in Elmira, New York, Clapp & Jones of New York, C. Ahrens & Co. / Ahrens Manufacturing Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio or the American Fire Engine Company, ""formed in 1891 as a joint venture between the Silsby Manufacturing Co. of Seneca Falls, New York, the Ahrens Manufacturing Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, the Clapp & Jones Manufacturing Co. of Hudson, New York, and the Button Fire Engine Co. of Waterford, New York."" – See “Worldwide Steam Fire Engine Register” by David Parfitt, Steel Wheels site, 04/30/2014, Accessed online 05/16/2014; http://www.steel-wheels.net/sferegister.html" [show more]
“As Americans developed a preference for fresh fish, demand for ice increased. Here, armed with a handsaw, ice chisel, and ice plow ...these ...men are harvesting ice, which rivaled granite in the 1890s as Maine’s prime export.” - “Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, 2001, p. 42.
Description: “As Americans developed a preference for fresh fish, demand for ice increased. Here, armed with a handsaw, ice chisel, and ice plow ...these ...men are harvesting ice, which rivaled granite in the 1890s as Maine’s prime export.” - “Mount Desert Island - Somesville, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor” by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and Lydia B. Vandenbergh - Images of America Series, 2001, p. 42.