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Pennsylvania Conestoga Wagon, circa 1890.
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Six white horses are hitched to a covered wagon with an advertising sign hanging from it.

Credit: Image donated by Corbis - Bettmann

In the late 1890s a photographer took this picture of an old Conestoga wagon hitched to a six-horse team with a sign boasting "Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in 20 days."

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