ca. 1920
In pre-automotive America, many different delivery wagons were built and were as varied as the jobs they preformed. These particular wagons were used for the delivery of milk to customers across the city and would also deliver bakery items. They were pulled by one horse, which often knew the route so well that they did not need to be driven by the milkman. These animals and their drivers were often so well known on their routes that the drivers would be invited in for coffee and the would be fed treats by little children and local businessmen. Sadly, by the Second World War these wagons were being replaced by the automobile as a less expensive means of transportation.
U.C. Sterquell acquired this wagon from Jack Day in a place north of Baltimore, Maryland in 1991. It was made roughly around 1920 for the use by the S.C. Price Dairy Company. For the restoration, Mr. Sterquell had to repaint most of the wagon and replace the wood that was rotted. As for the rural milk delivery wagon, it had to undergo an almost complete restoration after its acquisition at the Martin Sale Auction in Springfield, Illinois at an undocumented date.