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Thursday, September 25, 2025
Exploring History: Sailors along the shore
Here is a glass lantern slide that features a single horse-drawn cart riding the beach surf along Lake Ontario.

Here is a glass lantern slide that features a single horse-drawn cart riding the beach surf along Lake Ontario. The two people in the cart are a man and boy (the boy driving), both wearing what appear to be seamen’s peaked caps. The boy is wearing a sweater and the man, a possible peacoat. The cargo looks like what may be a short mast or boom and a bundled canvas sail.

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