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Both horses - but especially the one on the right - stand remarkably still and thus most of the photo is in crisp focus.Grandpa lists this as being taken at Front & Washington Streets. Where's Front Street - down towards the river?
I'm guessing this is a stable, not a farm. As seen in the 1914 King Frost, the horse was still the primary means of transport at this time. I have trouble visualizing where the horses owned by all the Hamburg townspeople were kept. In stables? On nearby farms? Did (almost) every family own a horse or two?
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Not every family had a horse. They walked a lot. But those who did had small barns in the back yard. Those barns were later turned into garages, and are still around. Our house at 3rd and Washington had a barn and you could still see where the stalls had been torn out to make room to put a car into it.
Janet
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