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

Published March 19, 2013

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.

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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

Posted in Notable People & Places
and tagged 1890s, Benjamin Harrison, Frances Benjamin Johnston, South Lawn, The White House

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