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This picture is illustrated on page 32 of Wallace Nutting's 1912 Picture Sales catalog and also on page 484 of his 1915 Expansible catalog. Nutting also illustrated this picture in his book, Vermont Beautiful on page 35 of the first edition and on page 43 of the second edition.
Wallace Nutting wrote, "The old stage coach in 'An Eventful Journey,' brings back an important feature of the bygone time." He recalls a thirty mile journey in such a coach through the country. Stopping at stations along the way where mail bags were left or taken on board.
He describes the romantic aspect of a stage coach saying, "The back seat of a stage coach was not the worst place for a flirtation more or less serious. The lurch of the vehicle around corners caused some natural stir within the coach which resulted in breaking the ice of reserve.... And to think, that a little gasoline wagon has secceeded this stage-coach poetry!"
Wallace Nutting described the elements composed in this photograph as:
"The old thoroughbrace (leather spring) stage-coach is the sort in which all traveling went forward three generations ago. And here on top is the big bandbox, and an old Maltese colored trunk, the leather cover being dressed with the hair on. Below and behind are tied a brass studded and a sole leather trunk, the latter with a collapsible top. Calash (the original for a woman's opera hat - it collapsed so nicely?) and the poke bonnet meet, for an old friend's good-bye."
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