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A Horse's Tail: 1914
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 8:30pm.
April 27, 1914. Detroit, Michigan. "Stables, Gordon & Pagel Co. bakery." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Heigh Ho Silver
Submitted by EastsideAl on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 10:53pm.
Gordon & Pagel would go national in the 1920s as the Gordon Baking Co., makers of Silvercup Bread. Although these horses would all have been long replaced by trucks by then, Silvercup would go on to make some more equine history as the original radio sponsors of the Lone Ranger, and, of course, his horse Silver.
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