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The Winning Team: 1908

Borden team, winner of the obstacle test in the Work Horse Parade on Union Square. June 13, 1908. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.

Borden team, winner of the obstacle test in the Work Horse Parade on Union Square. June 13, 1908. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.

 

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H. S. Tavshanjian...

I know this was posted once upon a time, but I was curiously looking up some of the names in the shop windows and found a very curious and tragic story about the rug importer in the upper left-hand corner:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=27576362

Grandpa (mad4books)

Looks like he just got finished a hard days work, cool picture

My grandpa...

...was a Mistletoe & Borden milkman in Texas before & during the Depression. No horse team then, although he probably would have liked that better...

Picture of him in 1927 with his Model T Mistletoe truck can be found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mad4books/448810318/

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