@article{1460048,
      recid = {1460048},
      author = {Berkebile, Donald H.,},
      title = {Horse-drawn commercial vehicles : 255 illustrations of  nineteenth-century stagecoaches, delivery wagons, fire  engines, etc. /},
      pages = {xi, 148 pages :},
      abstract = {Journey back to a bygone era when city streets and country  roads thronged with a rich assortment of horse-powered  vintage vehicles: ice wagons, drays, lunch wagons, delivery  trucks, fire engines, buggies, cats, log wagons,  stagecoaches, hearses, and many more. You'll find them all  in this treasury of over 250 authentic illustrations - many  inaccessible elsewhere - depicting a wide variety of  commercial conveyances of long ago. The author, a former  member of the curatorial staff of the Smithsonian  Institution's Division of Transportation, has carefully  selected detailed engravings of the period, many from rare  trade periodicals in the collection of the Smithsonian, as  well as photographs. Well-researched cations accompany the  illustrations, focusing on how the design of each vehicle  serves its specific purposes and needs, and supplying  various dimensions, coloring, and other details. The author  has also written an engrossing historical introduction that  sharply defines the development of commercial vehicles in  an age of headlong expansion and industrial advancement.  Invaluable for anyone interested in antique transportation,  this volume is also an ideal source of copyright-free  illustrations for use in ads, catalogs, book and magazine  illustrations and much more -- Back cover.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1460048},
}