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Auto Wheels and Porcelain Handles; $9.75 Baby Go-Cart (1908)

1900s

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Would you put your baby in this? What a bizarre baby carriage. And what is a sanitary couch?

Hub Furniture Co. advertisement - March 18th, 1908 (Washington Herald) — Hub Furniture Co. advertisement – March 18th, 1908 (Washington Herald)

READ: 1909 Map of Southwest by the National Mall

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