Hoover cart
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Identifier: 741.1.d.57
Two men in a mule-drawn cart reminding voters of Herbert Hoover's administration and urging them to vote for Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 Presidential election. The Hoover Cart was driven by North Carolina farmers as a form of transportation during the Depression and was built by taking the rear wheels off of a car and attaching them to a cart. The cart was then pulled by either mule or horse. The drivers of these carts would stop at service stations for water for the horse or mule and air for the tires, for which there was no cost. Date from negative sleeve.more...
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Two men in a mule-drawn cart reminding voters of Herbert Hoover's administration and urging them to vote for Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 Presidential election. The Hoover Cart was driven by North Carolina farmers as a form of transportation during the Depression and was built by taking the rear wheels off of a car and attaching them to a cart. The cart was then pulled by either mule or horse. The drivers of these carts would stop at service stations for water for the horse or mule and air for the tires, for which there was no cost. Date from negative sleeve.
Contributor(s)
Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.)
Date
1951
Call Number
741.1.d.57
Additional Resources
Collection(s)
The Daily Reflector Image Collection
Politics and Government
- North Carolina Politics
Transportation
Special Collections Staff Pick Collection

Subject(s)
Presidents--United States--Election--1952
Horse-drawn omnibuses--North Carolina--Greenville
Political posters, American--North Carolina--Greenville
Democratic Party (N.C.)
Finding Aid
Daily Reflector Negative Collection

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Location (spatial)
United States--North Carolina--Pitt County (N.C.)--Greenville (N.C.)
Type
still image
Medium
negatives (photographic)
Physical Description
12.5cm x 10cm
Rights
Copyright held by Joyner Library. Permission to reuse this work is granted for all non-commercial purposes.
Persistent URL
http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/2014

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Comments
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 Thu Mar 25 02:19 PM  by Comment received by Admin

Many thanks for the Hoover Cart picture. For forty years I traveled the SW states selling furniture for NC factories; when the subject of the Depression came up, I would make mention of Hoover Carts, and no one had ever heard of them. I do believe they were indigenous to Eastern North Carolina.
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 Thu Mar 25 02:18 PM  by Comment received by Admin

To make a Hoover Cart you cut the car in half, take the back half, rig shafts to it so that a mule can be hitched. The flat tires are stuffed with rope and off you go to town. The Hoover Cart was indigenous to Edgecombe and its surrounding counties during the 1930s.
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 Fri Feb 6 03:34 PM  by Beth Winstead

The building in the background was the Post Office. This is on Evans Street. The Pitt County Courthouse would be behind the photographer
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