Jarvis, Elissa Hoover cart 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. 741.1.d.57 2014 282 1951 eng still image negatives (photographic) 12.5cm x 10cm Presidents United States Election 1952 Horse-drawn omnibuses North Carolina Greenville Political posters, American North Carolina Greenville United States North Carolina Pitt County (N.C.) Greenville (N.C.) Democratic Party (N.C.) Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) contributor Politics and Government Copyright held by Joyner Library. Permission to reuse this work is granted for all non-commercial purposes. Kammerer, Roger and Pearce, Candace. Images of America Greenville. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, copyrighted 2001. The Daily Reflector Image Collection reflector Politics and Government pg North Carolina Politics ncp Transportation transportation Hardison, Nanette 6/25/2009 Special Collections Staff Pick Collection staffpick 0741 Hoover cart 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. Presidents--United States--Election--1952 Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) 1951 StillImage negatives (photographic) J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University eng 2014 Copyright held by Joyner Library. Permission to reuse this work is granted for all non-commercial purposes. Horse-drawn omnibuses--North Carolina--Greenville Political posters, American--North Carolina--Greenville United States--North Carolina--Pitt County (N.C.)--Greenville (N.C.) Democratic Party (N.C.) 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. 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. The building in the background was the Post Office. This is on Evans Street. The Pitt County Courthouse would be behind the photographer local, filename 2014.0001 27614232 image/tiff 6.0 PRONOM PUID: fmt/10 little endian uncompressed MD5 57edfb79062ea15ff0eca81880b2c095 ecu:digital_collections 4145 3328 Grayscale BlackIsZero 125 mm 100 mm 20080916 Digital Collections Epson Perfection V750 PRO Silverfast Ai v6.4.4r7 object plane in. 875 1 875 1 16 integer 1 internal