Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1949.068.0328Description
Concord Stagecoach.
Update - March 2010: Black & white print of a stagecoach "Rocky Mountain Pullman" with eight people on top, one looking out the window in door & a man standing on the ground. There are six horses hitched to coach. Coach is setting in front of a tie construction building with false front. Two more out buildings to left & right.
On bottom of picture front " THE LAST TRIP OF THE LAST "ROCK MOUNTAIN PULLMAN." This picture is of great historical interest, as it marks the passing of the famous western stage. It was taken in Wyoming at the time of the completion of the Saratoga & Encampment R. R. For some years the automobile had superseded the old Concord coach, but this old timer, for sentimental reasons, perhaps, was kept in service until the closing of this once famous stage route. It had carried thousands of fortune seekers in the rush to Encampment, and had weathered a score of hold-ups. These splendid old coaches were built by the Abbott-Downing factory at Concord, N. H., and "like a Concord coach" was to lavish the highest praise. The men who worked on their construction were masters of their art. If this old coach could speak it would tell many a tale that would put a movie thriller to shame. Perched on the hurricane deck you will find E. D. White, Director of Family League. The occasion depicted in this photo was felt by the passengers to be a melancholy one, and the photographer at the time of snapping his camera considered it incombent upon himself to spring a humorous sally in order to lighten the gloom. The driver, however, was in no mood for humor. "Hell boy," he said, "this is a funeral."
Condition: Good. Edges curled.Collection
Photograph Collection