Image: Mather cattle car
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Description: A"palace" or superior cattle car by the Mather company. Because cattle were supposedly fed and watered en route, there was no legall restriction upon the length of the The man above is using a cattle prod to get the recumbent animal to stand up and avoid being trampled to death..
Title: Mather cattle car
Credit: John H. White, "Riding in Style: Palace Cars for the Cattle Trade", Technology and Culture, 1990, Vol. 31(2), p.269
Author: Unknown sketcher
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