In the 1800’s, peddlers would travel from farm to farm using person- or animal-drawn carts to supply isolated populations with basic goods such as pots and pans, tools, and cloth. For many of those farms, the closest community could be more than a day’s travel making the peddler a vital part of life.
I found this restored peddler’s cart at King’s Landing, New Brunswick, the historical settlement I mentioned in an earlier post . In the background is the Sash and Door Factory where I found the windows in last week’s post.
Technical Notes:
3 brackets combined using Photomatix into a high-dynamic range image.
Classic image Ann – this really works well in HDR.
Thank you very much Russ, I was really having fun with the hand held HDR that day.
Love old carts like this. Very cool find!
Thanks Chris! King’s Landing was full of great finds, I could spend days there photographing.
I was just looking for pictures of pedlar’s carts as I’m thinking of buying an old one or making a replica for a travelling exhibition project in Northamptonshire, England when I came upon your picture. Congratulations on a really good picture of a very nice cart. Incidentally, a few years back I went to Lancaster County to find a 1930s Amish buggy for the American Museum in Britain, it is now one of their exhibits.
Hi Chris, thank you for the visit and your comments. Good luck with your travelling exhibition, sounds like quite a challenge.
Now that’s cool…