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A Sight You’re Unlikely to See Today: Kids Riding a Goat Cart on the South Lawn

Take a look back in time to a sight you're unlikely to see today: kids riding a goat cart on the South Lawn. Major Russell Harrison and his children provide a glimpse of quaint times gone by.
Independent Ice Co. advertisement in The Evening Critic - May 6th, 1885
Washington, D.C., 1920. "Gripp, Mathew, [Nathan] Lahn, Troske -- Gallaudet U." Gridiron stars of the first college for the deaf, credited with inventing the football huddle in the 1920s as a way to keep its signed plays secret.
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Here is something you are highly unlikely to see today. Kids on the South Lawn, riding a goat cart. Quaint.

Major Russell Harrison and Harrison children--Baby McKee and sister on goat cart
Major Russell Harrison and Harrison children–Baby McKee and sister on goat cart
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