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New Jersey circa 1900. "View near Basking Ridge." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
In fact, the wonderful One-hoss Shay.
Can you say Currier and Ives print? Beautiful photograph. Pony cart and corn shocks.
This could have been an advertisement for horse blinders. Or The Basking Ridge Horse Trainer.
It is hard to tell at this resolution, but that "bob war," as we say in the South, looks like a twisted serrated type that I saw in some other old photos.
Shay (from the French Chaise) (as quoted in "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet")
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