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Top: Left: Carry-log cart being used in Hancock County (1937) to move logs. This type conveyance usually is powered by a team of oxen and since the wheels are about eight feet in diameter it has no difficulty passing through cut over land with stumps standing." Center: "Right: Moving logs at the mill in George County with an old fashioned but patient and sturdy ox team; slow but dependable." Center: "Left: Here a 90 year old negress and her little son take a jaunt in the family car and if you inspect the picture the son is very carefully tending a toothsome and rather large watermelon against possible premature breakage - for this sulky has no springs and some of the back roads in Perry County where this picture was made do have an occasional rut and bump." Bottom: "Right: Amite County still regards the usefulness of the horse as means of, more or less, rapid transportation. This one horse vehicle does service in the town of Liberty."
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Top: Left: Carry-log cart being used in Hancock County (1937) to move logs. This type conveyance usually is powered by a team of oxen and since the wheels are about eight feet in diameter it has no difficulty passing through cut over land with stumps standing." Center: "Right: Moving logs at the mill in George County with an old fashioned but patient and sturdy ox team; slow but dependable." Center: "Left: Here a 90 year old negress and her little son take a jaunt in the family car and if you inspect the picture the son is very carefully tending a toothsome and rather large watermelon against possible premature breakage - for this sulky has no springs and some of the back roads in Perry County where this picture was made do have an occasional rut and bump." Bottom: "Right: Amite County still regards the usefulness of the horse as means of, more or less, rapid transportation. This one horse vehicle does service in the town of Liberty."
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- Title: Pictorial History, South Mississippi … WPA Mississippi Historical Research Project, 1936-1937
- Description: Top: Left: Carry-log cart being used in Hancock County (1937) to move logs. This type conveyance usually is powered by a team of oxen and since the wheels are about eight feet in diameter it has no difficulty passing through cut over land with stumps standing." Center: "Right: Moving logs at the mill in George County with an old fashioned but patient and sturdy ox team; slow but dependable." Center: "Left: Here a 90 year old negress and her little son take a jaunt in the family car and if you inspect the picture the son is very carefully tending a toothsome and rather large watermelon against possible premature breakage - for this sulky has no springs and some of the back roads in Perry County where this picture was made do have an occasional rut and bump." Bottom: "Right: Amite County still regards the usefulness of the horse as means of, more or less, rapid transportation. This one horse vehicle does service in the town of Liberty."
- Call Number: Series 0443
- Filename: 73473-sb1-37.tif