Originally Posted by
Sewnoma
Rodney - that's smart that they designed them that way, and it makes sense now that I'm actually thinking about it. Shipping treadles around by train and horse-drawn wagon...they had to have been "compactable".
And the sad part is that they did not compact them to ship... (This photo is from 1903)
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and up close...
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